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# Gale–Banks House

The Gale–Banks House is a historic house at 935 Main Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. This farmhouse was built c. 1798, and is one of the finest Federal style houses in the city. It is also significant for its association with Waltham native son, Governor of Massachusetts, and general of the American Civil War, Nathaniel Prentice Banks, who purchased it in 1855 and made it is home until his death in 1894. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

## Description and history

The Banks House is located on the north side of Main Street (United States Route 20), west of Waltham center and in an area that has significant commercial development. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a hip roof, clapboard siding, and two interior brick chimneys. It has a distinctive narrow hip-roof dormer, with windows facing north and south, at the apex of its roof. The main entrance is sheltered by a porch supported by fluted Doric columns and topped by a balustrade.
The house was built about 1798 by Jacob Gale, when the surrounding area was mostly farmland that had been in his family since the 17th century. It remained in the Gale family until 1855, when it was purchased by Nathaniel Prentice Banks along with 20 acres (8.1 ha) of land. Banks was a Waltham native who worked as a child in the mills of the Boston Manufacturing Company, and was by 1855 a prominent politician, having served as speaker of the state house of representatives. In 1857 he was elected Governor of Massachusetts, serving three one-year terms. He then served in the American Civil War as a general in the Union Army. After his death in 1894, the property was subdivided. The building now houses professional offices.
# Pomer

Pomer may refer to:
* Pomer, Zaragoza, Spanish municipality
* Pomer, Croatia, Croatian village
* Joshua L. Pomer (born 1980), American film director, screenwriter, and producer
# Glauber Rocha Airport

Glauber Rocha Airport (IATA: VDC, ICAO: SBVC) is the airport serving Vitória da Conquista, Brazil. It was named after the Brazilian Film Director Glauber de Andrade Rocha, who was born in Vitória da Conquista.
It is managed by Socicam.

## History

The airport opened on July 25, 2019. It replaced the former airport of Vitória da Conquista, Pedro Otacílio Figueiredo Airport.

## Airlines and destinations

| Airlines | Destinations |
| Azul Brazilian Airlines | Belo Horizonte–Confins, Salvador da Bahia |
| Gol Linhas Aéreas | São Paulo–Guarulhos, Salvador da Bahia |
| LATAM Brasil | São Paulo–Guarulhos |

## Access

The airport is located 18 km (11 mi) from downtown Vitória da Conquista.
# Sam Livingston

Samuel Henry Harkwood Livingston (4 February 1831 – 4 October 1897) born in Ireland, he came to Canada following an unsuccessful venture in the Californian gold rush of 1849, and eventually found his way to Jumping Pound, North-West Territories, in 1873 where he opened a trading post. He was going to settle near the confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers in 1875 but, when the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) arrived and established Fort Calgary, Livingston and his family moved further up the Elbow River to the current location of the Glenmore Reservoir. When the Glenmore Dam was built and the area flooded, part of the Livingston house was preserved and now stands at Heritage Park. Sam Livingston was an important man to Alberta's history. The Glenmore Reservoir gets its name from Sam too; Sam and Jane started a school on their farm that Sam named 'Glenmore School' after a place in Ireland. Glenmore is a village in County Kilkenny and quite close to his birthplace in County Wicklow.
Sam Livingston married Jane Howse in 1865 and settled at Fort Victoria for a while. He also started a business which included trading for buffalo hides. By 1874 he had relocated his operations southward to be closer to the trade with the plains Indians and was doing business near the Roman Catholic mission, Our Lady of Peace, on the Elbow River. In the summer of 1876 Livingston moved with his family closer to Fort Calgary, the newly established NWMP post on the river. Here, in 1876, he began cultivation and with John Glenn was one of the first farmers in the area.
Livingston was a great innovator who brought the first examples of mechanized equipment to farming in the Calgary area. Some people call Sam Livingston "Calgary's first citizen", but George Clift King is also given that title. In fact John Glenn was the first documented European settler in the Calgary area, in 1873. In 1872, Alexis Cardinal (Métis) had built a shack for Father Constantine Scollen. In March 1873, Scollen moved there and established the first mission to the Blackfoot Confederacy in what would later become Alberta.
In the months before the 1885 North-West Rebellion, Livingston and John Glen helped found the Alberta Settler Rights Association. Livingston spoke at the founding meeting that he was aggrieved because it had been difficult for him to get title to land he had used for years. He said he knew of 40 or 50 settlers who had been driven out of the country because they could not get land and that too much of the land was "all taken up by leases or reserves of some kind." The Association passed a statement that "we most earnestly impress upon the government the necessity of granting [to NWT Metis the privileges already granted in Manitoba] as the only way of removing the present discontent and of quieting the disturbances that have already arisen in these territories."
Sam Livingston died in 1897 shortly after the birth of his 14th child. His funeral procession was 40 carriages long.
# Mukesh Sharma

Mukesh Sharma is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th Legislative Assembly in Uttar Pradesh state of India. He represents the Shikarpur constituency of Uttar Pradesh and was a member of the Samajwadi Party political party until 2017.

## Early life and education

Sharma was born in Gautam Budh Nagar district. He is educated till twelfth grade (alma mater not known).

## Political career

Sharma has been a MLA for one term. He represented the Shikarpur constituency and was a member of the Samajwadi Party political party. Sharma was expelled from the SP along with his brother Bhagwan Sharma for defying the party whip by cross-voting in favor of a Bharatiya Janata Party nominee and attempted to contest with the BJP, but were denied tickets, after which, they joined the Rashtriya Lok Dal.

## Posts held

| # | From | To | Position | Comments |
| 01 | 2012 | Mar-2017 | Member, 16th Legislative Assembly | |
# Momote Airport

Momote Airport (IATA: MAS, ICAO: AYMO) is an airport on Los Negros Island in the Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea. It also serves Manus Island, which is connected to Los Negros by a bridge.

## History
### Hayne Airfield

Built by the Imperial Japanese at Momote during World War II. Known as Hayne Airfield by the Japanese, as they called Los Negros, Hayne Island. The runway was 4,100 feet (1,200 m) long × 300 feet (91 m) wide with three taxiways and 12 revetments under construction.
Occupied on 2 March 1944 by the US Army's 1st Cavalry Division as part of the Battle of Los Negros, which was part of the Admiralty Islands campaign.

#### Japanese Units based at Hayne Airfield

* 63rd Sentai, 3rd Chutai (Ki-43)
* 14th Sentai (Ki-21)

### Momote Airfield

After liberating the airfield on 2 March 1944, the Seabees of the 40th Naval Construction Battalion repaired the airfield and the airfield became operational on 18 May 1944, although fighters were landing at the airfield only two days after occupation. The single runway was extended to 7,800 feet (2,400 m) long × 130 feet (40 m) wide with 75-foot (23 m) shoulders, constructed with a coral base with marsden matting covering 1,000 feet (300 m) at the ends of the runway. A 7,000-barrel fuel depot was set up at the airfield. The United States Navy established Aviation Repair and Overhaul Unit No.1 (AROU 1) in the spring of 1944 on Momote Airfield between Seeadler Harbor and the Bismarck Sea on Los Negros Island. AROU 1 conducted maintenance and testing of naval aircraft and supplied aircraft to naval forces for major assaults as far away as the Philippine Islands.

#### Allied Units Based at Momote Airfield

* Headquarters, Thirteenth Air Force, (15 June-13 September 1944)
* Headquarters, XIII Bomber Command, (June-3 September 1944)
* 5th Bomb Group Headquarters
** 23d Bomb Squadron (B-24s)
** 31st Bomb Squadron (B-24s)
** 72d Bomb Squadron (B-24s)
** 394th Bomb Squadron (B-24s)
* 307th Bombardment Group, (13 AF) (29 April-24 August 1944)
* 403d Troop Carrier Group, (13 AF) 30 August-4 October 1944
* Detachment, 419th Night Fighter Squadron, (13 AF) (27 June-18 August 1944)
* Aviation Repair and Overhaul Unit No.1 (AROU 1, USN) (est. late May 1944)
* No. 19 Squadron RNZAF (F4Us)
* No. 73 Wing RAAF
** No. 76 Squadron RAAF (Kittyhawks)
** No. 77 Squadron RAAF (Kittyhawks)
** No. 79 Squadron RAAF (Spitfires)
* No. 27 Air Stores Park RAAF
* No. 114 (Mobile) Fighter Sector Headquarters RAAF
* No. 346 Radar Station RAAF
A memorial to the 1944 operation of the 1st Cavalry Division (United States) on Los Negros Island is located near the north end of the airfield.

## Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation of 12 feet (4 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 16/34 with a chip seal surface measuring 1,870 by 45 metres (6,135 ft × 148 ft). The airport can accommodate B737 operations and night operations. The airport is sometimes used by private business jets as an alternative stop-over on the route between United States and India.

## Airlines and destinations

| Airlines | Destinations |
| Air Niugini | Kavieng, Lae, Madang, Port Moresby |
# David Kirk (scientist)

David Blair Kirk (born 1960) is a computer scientist and former chief scientist and vice president of architecture at NVIDIA. As of 2019, he is a Venture Partner at DigitalDx Ventures, and an independent consultant and advisor.
Kirk holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology. From 1989 to 1991, Kirk was an engineer for Apollo Systems Division of Hewlett-Packard. From 1993 to 1996, Kirk was Chief Scientist and Head of Technology for Crystal Dynamics, a video game manufacturing company. From 1997 to 2009 he was NVIDIA's chief scientist and he is an NVIDIA Fellow.
In 2002, Kirk received the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award for his significant contributions to bringing high performance graphics hardware to the mass market. In 2006, Kirk was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for his role in bringing high-performance graphics to personal computers.
Kirk is the inventor of 50 patents and patent applications relating to graphics design and underlying graphics algorithms.

## Books

* David B. Kirk; Wen-mei W. Hwu (2012). Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach (2nd ed.). Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0-12-391418-7.
# Nippon Kangyo Bank

The Nippon Kangyo Bank or Hypothec Bank of Japan (Japanese: 日本勧業銀行) (HBJ) was a major Japanese bank headquartered in Tokyo, established in 1897 as the first of a string of policy institutions ("special banks") that subsequently included Bank of Taiwan (est. 1899), Hokkaido Takushoku Bank (est. 1900), and Industrial Bank of Japan (est. 1902), with the aim to promote agriculture and industrial development by providing mortgage ("hypothecary") loans.$^{:16}$
In 1971, Nippon Kangyo Bank merged with Dai-Ichi Bank to form the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, subsequently Japan's largest bank and a predecessor to Mizuho Financial Group.

## Overview

Nippon Kangyo Bank was founded in 1897 as a governmental institution providing long-term light industrial and agricultural loans under the Nippon Kangyo Bank Act of 1896. The Industrial Bank of Japan was also founded in 1902, providing long-term heavy industrial loans. Nippon Kangyo Bank had offices only in Tokyo and Osaka, leaving nationwide local services in the charge of its subsidiaries known as Noko Bank (lit. Agricultural and Industrial Bank). A Noko Bank was established in each of the prefectures of Japan, except for Hokkaidō where a similar role was played by Hokkaido Takushoku Bank.
In order to provide long-term loans, the bank's source of funds was not deposits but securities. The bank was also authorized to issue premium-bearing debentures. The bank financed, however, landlords and partnerships, and there were little money to go around individual farmers. In 1911 the Nippon Kangyo Bank act was amended so that Nippon Kangyo Bank could handle deposit accounts and offer short-term finance. In the latter of Taishō period the bank embarked on real estate investments, while Noko Banks were absorbed into Nippon Kangyo Bank one after another. The bank dramatically increased its scale of operations.
During World War II, Nippon Kangyo Bank was the lead management underwriter of war bonds for Japanese government. In reality, the war bond by Nippon Kangyo Bank was a lottery rather than a bond. Today's Japanese lottery (takarakuji) has its origin in this war bond.
Following World War II the Nippon Kangyo Bank, like the Industrial Bank of Japan, lost its earlier status as semi-public bank by being privatized in 1950, following a recommendation from Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers General Douglas MacArthur. It thus became a commercial bank following the Nippon Kangyo Bank Repeal Act of 1950. The long-term banking division of Nippon Kangyo Bank was transferred to newly established Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan. The bank became popular among the public with the new rose logo, mascot named Nobara-chan (lit. Rose-chan) and advertising slogan "Rose's HBJ" (「ばらの勧銀」, Bara no Kangin).
# Jay Lyon

Jay Lyon (born Brent Tuhtan on 14 June 1984) is an Australian model and musician in the band Tamarama, and reality television star who appeared in The Hills and The City television series.

## Career

Jay Lyon started off his career as a model and is a member of the band Tamarama, which took its name from the suburb of Tamarama, Sydney, Australia. They get their influences from beachside folk-pop artists such as Jack Johnson and G. Love & Special Sauce, along with fellow member Nicolas Pottsy Potts the band released their first Album/EP, Wonderland City on 7 May 2008, named after the Wonderland City amusement park in Sydney, and on 1 June 2010 they released their first full album titled Tamarama on label Universal/Motown.
In 2008 Lyon appeared in the American MTV teen series, The Hills, and shortly afterwards followed that up by appearing in the MTV spin-off series, The City, playing the part of Whitney Port's boyfriend, with whom he was having a relationship with in real life.
In 2014 Lyon co-founded the Original Meatball Company with Dominic Lopresti, a restaurant specializing in meatballs inspired by Lyon's experiences in New York. From February 2015 to February 2017 Lyon operated a recruitment business, Lyon Recruitment. Lyon Recruitment provided Labour Market Testing services to immigrants to Australia to obtain skilled work visas. Lyon also worked as a paralegal at Perez Varela Lawyers during these years.
In 2016 to present, Lyon is a partner in a production company with long time friend and artist and photographer Nick Leary. The company named The Aesthetic create visual assets for luxury brands and property developments. Their most recent work being for Australia's most prestigious residential property development One Circular Quay.

## Personal life

In 2003 Jay Lyon dated Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr. The couple were together for four years before ending their relationship in 2007.
In 2008, he started a relationship with American reality TV star Whitney Port, and starred on the TV series The Hills and The City alongside her, before he cheated on her and subsequently ditched her to go tour with his band in 2009. Growing up he was a student at the exclusive St Aloysius' College in Kirribilli, Sydney.

## Discography

* Wonderland City (2008)
* Tamarama (2010)

## Filmography

| Year | Film/TV | Role | Notes |
| 2001 | Fluffer | Himself | Film |
| 2008 | The Hills | Himself | Appeared in 2 episodes |
| 2008-2009 | The City | Himself | Starred in a total of 14 episodes from 2008 to 2009 |
# Adolphe Jourdan

Adolphe Jourdan (4 August 1825 – 22 February 1889) was a French painter.

## Early life and education

Adolphe Jourdan was born on 4 August 1825 in Nimes, France.
His father, a drawing instructor in Nimes, introduced him to art before he trained in Paris with Léon Cogniet, Paul Delaroche, and Charles Jalabert. In the mid-1840s, he began his training as a painter at the School of Fine Arts (known as École des Beaux-Arts) in Paris, studying under French painter Charles Jalabert.

## Career

Adolphe Jourdan earned the prize of honor at the 1863 Exposition Régionale des Beaux-Arts in Nimes for his single painting on display.
The native of Nimes began exhibiting at the annual Paris Salon held by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1855, receiving medals in 1864, 1866, and 1869. In 1864, his piece titled Leda earned him a medal at the exhibition and praise from Théophile Gautier. He received another medal in 1866 for The Secrets of Love. In 1869, he exhibited A Reading and Young Fishers, with the latter acquired by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes.
Jourdan was ranked among France's popular painters alongside Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel. Employed by a Parisian art dealer, he painted replicas of masterworks, notably Cabanel's The Birth of Venus (1864), frequently mistaken for the original.
In 1874, Vincent van Gogh expressed his admiration for him in letters to his brother Theo.
At the 1877 Salon, Adolphe Jourdan exhibited A Breakfast at Saint-Honorat. In 1876, he showcased The Good-By and The Three Friends. During the 1876 Johnston sale in New York, A Young Italian Mother sold for $2,300. At the 1878 Salon, he presented a portrait and The Banks of the Gardon.
Jourdan later became the director of the Nîmes School of Fine Arts.
At the Salon of 1888, Jourdan exhibited a portrait of Gaston Boissier.

## Death

Adolphe Jourdan died on 22 February 1889 in Nimes, France.

## Works

* The 4 Seasons (1857)
* Young Winemaker (1861)
* Bathing Girl (1870)
* Leda (1864)
* Cupid's Secrets (1866)
* Venus and Cupid (1869)
* Meditation (1874)
* Young Italian Mother (1874)
* Pursuit (1874)
* Little Girl (1875)
* Parting (1876)
* Three Friends (1876)
* Breakfast at Saint-Honorat (1877)
* On the Banks of the Gardon (1878)
* Venus (1879)
* Nurse (1879)
* Mother and Child (1880)
* The First Step (1881)
* Girl with a Shell (1882)
* Woman Charming a Bird (1883)
* First Smiles (1884)
* Study (1884)
* Une Loge (1885)
* Brindisi (1885)

## Gallery

* Works by Adolphe Jourdan
* Les secrets de l'amour, 1866
* A Mother's Embrace
* Le Papillon, 1860
* Madonna and child, 1867
* Marquise des Rossi, née Elaghine, 1860
# George Mallen

George L. Mallen FBCS FRSA (born 1939) is a British businessman who has been a pioneer of creative computer systems since 1962. He co-founded the Computer Arts Society (CAS) with Alan Sutcliffe and John Lansdown in 1968. In 1970, he led CAS members in creating Ecogame, the "first digitally driven, multi-player, interactive gaming system in the UK". Also in 1970, he founded the company System Simulation Ltd, one of the longest established software companies in the United Kingdom.

## Early life

George Mallen was born in Melrose, Scottish Borders. He studied Physics at the University of Brighton, England, receiving his degree in 1962.

## Career

Mallen's first involvement with computer simulation was at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, working on air traffic control during 1962–3. Initially, he worked with the cybernetician and polymath Gordon Pask (1928–1996) at his company System Research Ltd, where he became a director, before himself founding the company System Simulation Ltd (SSL) in 1970. In parallel, Mallen held academic positions at the Royal College of Art in London (1971–1981), introducing computer graphics into teaching, and at Bournemouth University, where he was the founding head of the Department of Communication and Media, also introducing computer graphics there too.
In 1968, Mallen assisted with aspects of Pask's contributions to the early computer art exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, curated by Jasia Reichardt. In 1976, Mallen and SSL were involved with computer-generated sequences for the 1979 Hollywood film Alien, directed by Ridley Scott.
Mallen was co-founder (in 1968), President, and later President Emeritus (from 2019) of the Computer Arts Society (CAS). In 1969, CAS organised the Event One digital art exhibition at the Royal College of Art (RCA). This was celebrated 50 years later at the RCA with Event Two, which Mallen also attended. Mallen was central to preserving the archives of the Computer Arts Society. These were originally stored at the System Simulation offices in Covent Garden, London, and these became the core of the CACHe ("Computer Art Context History Etc") Project at Birkbeck, University of London during 2002–05. This archive became an important part of the national collection of computer art at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Mallen was a member and later honorary member of the EVA London Electronic Visualisation and the Arts conference organising committee under James Hemsley. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and the Royal Society of Arts.
In 2024, a book on Mallen's lifetime contributions to computer arts was published. The EVA London 2024 conference proceedings were dedicated to Mallen.
# List of Hong Kong Polytechnic University alumni

This is a list of notable graduates of Hong Kong Polytechnic University or the former Hong Kong Polytechnic.

## Politicians and public service

* Chan Kam Lam (1971) - former member (Kowloon East) of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong SAR
* Leung Chun Ying (1974, Higher Diploma in Surveying) - former Chief Executive of Hong Kong
* Li Qiang (2005, EMBA) - Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China
* Lam Tai-fai (1981, Higher Diploma in Textile Technology) - former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong SAR for the Industrial Functional Constituency; currently Chairman of the Council of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Chairman of the Hong Kong Sports Institute

## Education

* Kim Man Lui (2006, Ph.D. in Software Engineering) - author, business, and professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University

## Community leaders

* Rebecca Lee (1964, Certificate in Commercial Design) - explorer
* Ng Chun-ting, Elton (2000, Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy; 2005, Master of Science in Sports Physiotherapy) - mountaineer; 2018, Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Hong Kong

## Design and performing arts

* Vivienne Tam - fashion designer
* Wong Kar-wai - film director
* Gigi Leung - singer, songwriter and actor
* Raman Hui - film director and animator
* Paul Wong - composer, songwriter, singer and the lead guitarist of the band Beyond
* Alice Mak - artist and cartoonist, mother of cartoon characters McMug and McDull
* Pinky Lai - designer of the original Porsche Boxster and Cayman
* Stella So - illustrator and comic artist
* Phoebus Ng - singer and actor; champion of King Maker II, member of Hong Kong Cantopop group P1X3L
* Beatrix Pang - visual artist

## Business

* Tiger Lin, engineer & businessman

## Outstanding PolyU Alumni Award

* List of awardees