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# Gerald Shamash, Baron Shamash

Gerald David Shamash, Baron Shamash (born 1947) is a British lawyer and life peer. He has acted as a solicitor for the Labour Party since 1990 and was appointed a member of the House of Lords in 2024.

## Early life and education

Shamash was born in 1947 in Manchester to parents who came to England from Baghdad. The family moved to London when Shamash's brother-in-law Robert Sheldon was elected to Parliament in 1964. Shamash joined the Labour Party in 1969 after involvement in student politics and the Anti-Apartheid Movement.
Shamash attended North Cestrian Grammar School and Burnage Grammar School in Greater Manchester, and studied human and physical sciences at the University of Surrey to become a dentist before training to become a solicitor.

## Career

At the suggestion of his wife and her father, Shamash took up the study of law and qualified as a solicitor in 1976. His early legal career, at PR Kimber, was in criminal and personal-injury law. With Elaine Steel, he founded Steel & Shamash in 1981, based in Waterloo. One of the first firms to be granted a Legal Aid Agency contract, it merged with Edwards Duthie in 2019 to form Edwards Duthie Shamash, and Shamash heads its parliamentary, electoral and media law practice.
Shamash has acted as a solicitor for the Labour Party since 1990, having worked for the party since at least 1983. He advised Labour during the Cash-for-Honours and parliamentary expenses scandals, and acted for public figures affected by the phone-hacking scandal.
In the 1979 general election, Shamash stood unsuccessfully as a Labour Party candidate in the safe Conservative seat of Shoreham. He was subsequently elected a member of Barnet London Borough Council at the 1986 and 1990 council elections, representing the ward of Burnt Oak for two terms. Shamash has served as a magistrate in London since 1985.
Shamash was nominated by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer for a life peerage and was created Baron Shamash, of West Didsbury in the City of Manchester, on 6 March 2024.

## Personal life

Shamash is married to Naomi Angell, a specialist in international adoption law; they have three children who were adopted from South America. He is a supporter of Manchester United Football Club and chaired the Manchester United Supporters' Trust from 2012 to 2021.
Shamash is Jewish but not religious.
# Miroslav, King of Croatia

Miroslav (Latin: Miroslaus) was the King of Croatia from 945 until his death in 949 and a member of the Trpimirović dynasty.

## Reign

He was the oldest son of Krešimir I and succeeded him as king in 945. During his reign, Croatia suffered a civil war and the Croatian navy was reduced to only 30 ships, while the infantry and cavalry also had losses. Miroslav was finally killed by Pribina, Ban of Croatia in 949, and his younger brother, Michael Krešimir II, succeeded him as king.
# Daniel Coakley (swimmer)

Daniel Zane Coakley (born December 13, 1989) is a Filipino-American swimmer who won two gold medals and a silver medal at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games. He competed in the 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Olympics, but failed to reach the final. Coakley is a great-grandson of Olympic medalist in swimming Teófilo Yldefonso.
# Adolph Baller

Adolph Baller (July 30, 1909 – January 23, 1994) was an Austrian-American pianist who played classical and romantic music. He performed with Yehudi Menuhin for several years, toured internationally for decades with the Alma Trio, and was a renowned piano teacher at Stanford and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

## Early years

Baller was born July 30, 1909, in Brody, which at the time was in the Austro-Hungarian empire and is now in western Ukraine. At age 8, he went to Vienna to study piano with a former student of Franz Liszt. When he was 13 he gave his first solo performance, with the Vienna Philharmonic, following it with performances in all major European capitals.
In March 1938, Nazi soldiers learned that he was a pianist and a Jew. They arrested him, beat him and crushed his hands. Baller's fiancée, Edith Strauss-Neustadt, interceded on his behalf with the Polish Consul in Vienna and helped to restore his hands through a long treatment so that he could resume his career. The couple escaped to Budapest, where they were married before coming to the United States in 1938.

## Career

While Baller worked as a pianist for the WQXR radio station in New York City, he met violinist Yehudi Menuhin and cellist Gabor Rejto. Beginning in 1941, the Ballers lived with their daughter, Nina, at Menuhin's Alma Estate in Los Gatos, California.
For several years Baller accompanied Menuhin in performances throughout the world and performed in chamber concerts, being particularly active during World War II with performances for troops deployed overseas.
Under Yehudi Menuhin's patronage, Baller, Gabor Rejto and Roman Totenberg formed the Alma Trio in 1942–1943 at Menuhin's Alma estate in Los Gatos, California. Violinist Maurice Wilk joined the Alma Trio after Totenberg retired. Following Wilk's sudden death in 1963, violinist Andor Toth joined the Alma Trio and remained their violinist for the next 15 years, before the trio wound down their touring in the mid-1980s.

## Later years

Baller served as a faculty member at Stanford University for over 30 years. Among his most notable students were pianists Jerome Rose, William Corbett Jones, Xenia Boodberg Lee and Nohema Fernández.
In 1984, the Music Guild at Stanford created an endowment fund in his honor, providing scholarship assistance to piano students at Stanford.
He died at his home in Palo Alto on January 23, 1994, aged 84.
# Linda Vissers

Linda Vissers (born 5 February 1961) is a member of the Flemish Parliament from the right-wing, separatist Vlaams Belang party of Belgium.
# Amity Dry

Amity Renae Dry, born in Adelaide, South Australia is an Australian singer-songwriter and a reality show contestant.

## Early career

At just five years of age she started studying music and piano and performing on stage. She began writing original songs when she was twelve and was accepted into a performing arts school at sixteen.

## The Block

Amity got her big break after appearing on the Nine Network reality show The Block alongside her husband Phil Rankine in 2003.
Four couples, including Dry and Rankine, lived in and renovated a run down apartment block. When they had finished, the apartments were auctioned off individually, and the couples got whatever money they made over the reserve price.
Dry and her husband Phil Rankine appeared on the 2013 series of The Block: All Stars and were the winners.

## Music career

Through the exposure of her talents on the show, Amity gained a record contract and released the album The Lighthouse during the media promotion for the show. It debuted at number eight on the ARIA album charts. The only song released as a CD single was "Start of Something New".
After taking a break from the music scene, she returned in 2005 with an independently released album True to Me.
She has written a musical play entitled "Mother, Wife and the Complicated Life" in which she performs with three other women.

## Personal life

Amity was married to Phil Rankine and they have two children, born in 2006 and 2010. The couple divorced in 2018.

## Discography
### Albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions and certifications :
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | AUS | Certifications |
| The Lighthouse | Released: July 2003 Label: Universal Music Australia (980 810-4) Formats: CD | 6 | ARIA: Gold |
| True to Me | Released: 2005 Label: Ranx Records (RXRCD917827) Formats: CD | | |

### Charting singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions :
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
| Title | Year | AUS | Album |
| "Start of Something New" | 2003 | 81 | The Lighthouse |
# Landers Creek Bridge

The Landers Creek Bridge, also known as the Goodrich Bridge and located at the southern edge of Goodrich in Linn County, Kansas, is a stone arch bridge built in 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The bridge design reflects the transition of materials: it uses stone voussoirs, concrete piers, and concrete spandrel walls. It has five stone arches and is 82 feet (25 m) long with a 14 feet (4.3 m) roadway (from curb to curb). The roadway is 14 feet (4.3 m) above Landers Creek. Small limestone wing walls were added later.
# Battle of Placilla

The Battle of Placilla was an engagement fought during the Chilean Civil War of 1891 between Balmacedist and Congressional forces on 28 August 1891. The Congressist victory in the battle effectively determined the outcome of the war. Congressist troops entered Santiago on August 30. President José Manuel Balmaceda committed suicide inside the Argentine embassy in Santiago on 19 September.

## Gallery

* After the Battle of Placilla illustration
# Terrestrial Verses

Terrestrial Verses (Persian: آیه های زمینی) is a 2023 Iranian film written and directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami.
It had its world premiere at the Un Certain Regard section of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, on 23 May 2023.

## Synopsis

The film contains nine vignettes in which ordinary Iranian citizens struggle against the power of religiously-guided authoritarianism in everyday situations.

## Cast

* Sadaf Asgari as Sadaf
* Bahram Ark as Bahram
* Ardeshir Kazemi as 100-year-old man
* Gohar Kheirandish as Mehri
* Farzin Mohades as Ali
* Faezeh Rad as Faezeh
* Majid Salehi as Siamak
* Hossein Soleimani as Farbod Akhtari
* Sarvin Zabetian as Aram
* Arghavan Shabani as Selena

## Production

Asgari and Khatami worked on the script together, but had difficulty finding a producer and ultimately produced the film at their own expense with financial support from friends. The film was then shot within seven days.

## Release

The film premiered on May 23, 2023, in Cannes, after which it was shown on October 4, 2023, at the BFI Film Festival in London, on October 19, 2023, in the USA during the Chicago International Film Festival and at other international film festivals. The cinema release in Germany was April 11, 2024.

## Awards

The film won both the Grand Prix and the FIPRESCI Award at 2024 Luxembourg City Film Festival.
# Larry Monroe Forever Bridge

The Larry Monroe Forever Bridge is a bridge mural and memorial to Austin broadcaster and musical scholar Larry Monroe. The bridge's two low walls are decorated with mosaic tiles relating to Monroe and the music he played on Austin radio for more than 30 years. Artist Stefanie Distefano designed and directed the project. The bridge is located on East Side Drive as it crosses Blunn Creek between Stacy Park and Little Stacy Park in the Travis Heights neighborhood in South Austin, Texas.

## History

An Austin radio disc jockey for more than thirty years, Monroe promoted Austin singer-songwriters and Austin-produced music on his programs. After he died in January 2014, his fans and friends wanted to honor his life and his contribution to music in Austin. His companion, Ave Bonar, suggested the idea for the mosaic bridge and commissioned mosaic artist Stefanie Distefano to design the project. Together they supervised over 100 volunteers who fabricated mosaic tiles made to look like radios, cassette tapes, ceramic portraits, and dozens of other representations of Monroe’s life and career, including replicas of his signature Segway license plate and a replica of the logo featured on his website, designed by artist Sam Hurt. The bridge features tiles depicting vinyl records with names of artists and songs that represent the range of music that Monroe enjoyed, as well as tiles containing lyrics by a few of the musicians whose music he played, including a 22-foot musical score from the Townes Van Zandt song To Live Is to Fly. The project was supported by the Austin Art in Public Places program, the Austin Arts Commission, the South River City Citizens, and private donations.
On June 18, 2015, the Austin City Council passed resolution No.20150618-086, officially naming the bridge in recognition of the legacy of Larry Monroe. At a dedication ceremony on June 20, 2015, Mayor Pro Tem Kathie Tovo accepted the artwork on behalf of the City of Austin.

### Partial list of mosaic tiles

Sources:
* Austin Lounge Lizards
* Marcia Ball
* Joe Ely
* Blaze Foley†
* Butch Hancock
* Stevie Ray Vaughan†
* Doug Sahm†
* Darden Smith
* Townes Van Zandt †
* Carolyn Wonderland
* David Rodriguez†
* Fred Neil†
* Jennifer Warneswith Doyle Bramhall †
* Jimmie Dale Gilmore
* Kent Dykes
* Kimmie Rhodes
* Laurie Freelove†
* Leeann Atherton
* Uncle Walt's Band†
* Carrie Rodriguez
* Sara Hickman
* Greezy Wheels
* Steven Fromholz†
* Beto y Los Fairlanes
* Christine Albert
* James Cotton†
* Chuck Berry†
* Johnny Cash†
* Nervous Norvus†
* The Big Bopper†
* Unknown Hinson
* Tony Joe White†
* Junior Brown
* Sonny Boy Williamson II†
* Lavelle White

## Events

Friends of Monroe and guest musicians meet at the bridge annually, near the end of August, the anniversary of Monroe's birth, to perform and celebrate his life.
# 2022 UR4

2022 UR$_4$ is a small near-Earth asteroid that made an extremely close approach within 0.044 lunar distances (17,000 km; 11,000 mi) from Earth's center on 20 October 2022 at 22:45 UTC. It was discovered about 14 hours before closest approach by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii on 20 November 2022. During the close approach, the asteroid passed above the northern hemisphere of Earth and reached a peak brightness of magnitude 10, just 40 times fainter than the threshold of naked eye visibility.
# Leechburg Bridge

The Leechburg Bridge is a bridge that crosses the Kiskiminetas River between West Leechburg and Leechburg in Pennsylvania U.S.A. It carries unsigned state route 4093 and connects with Pennsylvania Route 66 just after the Leechburg approach.
This five-span 1935 truss bridge replaced an older structure on the site. It features unusually wide shoulders, due to the presence of turning lanes immediately at the ends of the bridge. In 1984, the bridge was rehabilitated.
# Handball at the 2002 Asian Games

The Handball events at the 2002 Asian Games were held in South Korea between 30 September and 13 October 2002. The competition took place at the Changwon Gymnasium.

## Schedule

| ● | Round | ● | Last round | P | Preliminary round | C | Classification | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 30th Mon | 1st Tue | 2nd Wed | 3rd Thu | 4th Fri | 5th Sat | 6th Sun | 7th Mon | 8th Tue | 9th Wed | 10th Thu | 11th Fri | 12th Sat | 13th Sun |
| Men | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | | ½ | C | F |
| Women | | ● | | ● | | ● | | ● | | ● | | ● | ● | |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | South Korea Han Kyung-tai Hwangbo Sung-il Kim Tea-wan Yoon Kyung-min Jeong Seo-yoon Lim Seong-sik Chang Joon-sung Nam Kwang-hyun Yoon Kyung-shin Park Min-chul Lee Jun-hee Kang Il-koo Lee Jae-woo Park Jung-jin Lee Byung-ho Paek Won-chul | Kuwait Abdulrazzaq Al-Boloushi Hasan Al-Shatti Fahad Al-Azemi Waleed Al-Hajraf Husain Siwan Ali Al-Haddad Ahmad Al-Kandari Abdullah Al-Theyab Yousef Al-Fadhli Salah Al-Marzouq Abdulaziz Balous Meshal Swailem Mohammad Al-Fadhli Saad Al-Azemi Ali Murad Faisal Siwan | Qatar Nawaf Al-Suwaidi Mohamed Saad Al-Saad Rashid Al-Remaihi Mohammed Al-Mansoori Abdulla Saad Al-Saad Adnan Al-Ali Khalid Al-Sabea Ahmed Saad Al-Saad Mubarak Bilal Al-Ali Yousef Ashoor Nasser Saad Al-Saad Mahmoud Ali Shayef Badi Johar Yousef Al-Maalem Borhan Al-Turki Meshaal Al-Sulaiti |
| Women details | South Korea Lee Nam-soo Kim Hyang-ki Huh Soon-young Kim Eun-gyung Jang So-hee Kim Hyun-ok Kim Cha-youn Lee Seul-hee Huh Young-sook Moon Kyeong-ha Kim Cheong-sim Chung Eun-hee Woo Sun-hee Son Myung-hee Myoung Bok-hee Choi Im-jeong | Kazakhstan Olga Travnikova Yelena Kozlova Olga Zolina Irina Borechko Marina Buzmakova Svetlana Grasmik Lyazzat Kilibayeva Olga Yegunova Liliya Zubkova Lyudmila Sidorenko Natalya Kubrina Irina Lang Natalya Shapovalova Irina Melnikova Yuliya Puzanova Olga Adzhiderskaya | China Wang Xiaojiong Zhai Chao Liu Yun Li Bing Shi Wei Li Yang Chen Haiyun Zhu Hongxia Wu Yanan Liu Xiaomei Che Zhihong Yu Geli Zhao Ying Li Weiwei Li Xin |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | South Korea (KOR) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Kuwait (KUW) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | China (CHN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | Qatar (QAT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | Totals (5 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

## Draw

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 1998 Asian Games. The women were played in round robin format.
* Withdrew.

## Final standing
### Men

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
| | South Korea | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| | Kuwait | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| | Qatar | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Japan | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Chinese Taipei | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Bahrain | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | China | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | United Arab Emirates | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Mongolia | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |

### Women

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
| | South Korea | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| | Kazakhstan | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| | China | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | Japan | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | North Korea | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
# Lehigh Valley Railroad, Delaware River Bridge

The Lehigh Valley Railroad, Delaware River Bridge is an abandoned railway bridge originally built by the Lehigh Valley Railroad over the Delaware River between Easton, Pennsylvania and Phillipsburg, New Jersey. It was constructed by the American Bridge Company in 1901 and 1902 on piers built in 1866.
# Lucius Cornelius Pusio Annius Messalla

Lucius Cornelius Pusio Annius Messalla was a Roman senator under the Flavian dynasty who held several offices in the emperor's service. He was suffect consul in an uncertain year, most likely 72 or 73, as the colleague of Plotius Pegasus. The shorter form of his name is Lucius Cornelius Pusio.
Anthony Birley guesses Messalla's origins lay in a Spanish province, "probably from Gades, with a residence at Tibur."
Messalla's cursus honorum can be reconstructed in part from a bronze tablet found in Rome. His public career began with the quatraviri viarum curandorum, one of the four boards that form the vigintiviri; this board was tasked with maintaining the city roads of Rome. He then was commissioned as a military tribune with Legio XIV Gemina stationed in Roman Britain; Birley dates this to before the year 60, meaning Messalla had left the legion when the unit triumphed in the Battle of Watling Street that year. He then proceeded through the traditional Republican magistracies -- quaestor, plebeian tribune and praetor -- before accepting a second commission, this time as legatus legionis or commander of Legio XVI Flavia Firma before the year 70. This was the point where the account of his cursus ends.
From other sources we know Messalla was co-opted into the Septemviri epulonum following his consulate. We also know he capped his senatorial career as a proconsular governor, but it is not certain whether it was of Africa or Asia. His son was the homonymous consul of the year 90, Lucius Cornelius Pusio Annius Messala.
# Al-Burihah

Al-Burihah (Arabic: البريهه) is a sub-district in the Jabal Habashi District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen. Al-Burihah's population was 9,784 at the 2004 census.
# Joyce Trisler

Joyce Trisler (1934–1979) was an American modem dancer and choreographer.

## Biography

Trisler was born in 1934 in Los Angeles, California. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
Trisler started her career with the Lester Horton Dance Theater. She moved to New York City in the 1950s to study with Doris Humphrey and attended the Juilliard School, graduating in 1957. Trisler danced with the Juilliard Dance Theater from 1955 through 1959. She also danced with Alvin Ailey.
She established the Joyce Trisler Danscompany in the mid-1970s.
Trisler died on October 13, 1979, in New York City at the age of 45.
Ailey created Memoria in her honor. The ballet debuted at New York City Center in 1979.
# María Emilia Islas

María Emilia Islas Gatti (18 April 1953 – disappeared 27 September 1976) was a Uruguayan political activist and anarchist, who disappeared in Buenos Aires in 1976.

## Biography

She was born on 18 April 1953, at the Harvard Clinical Sanatorium in Montevideo. The only daughter of María Ester Gatti and Ramón Islas, María Emilia was named for her grandmother. She lived her first years in the Cordon neighbourhood.
In 1965, María Emilia entered the Zorillia de San Martin high school where she became engaged in politics and political organizing. In 1970 she became more involved and joined the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU), the Oriental Revolutionary Popular Organization 33 (OPR 33); Asociación de Estudiantes de Magisterio en la Resistencia Obrero Estudiantil (ROE) and finally in Argentina, with the Party for Victory of the People (PVP).
On 28 November 1973, she married Jorge Zaffaroni, also an activist. By 1974, the political situation in Uruguay became intolerable, so they left for Buenos Aires. María Emilia arrived during the second week of December, then six months pregnant. Zaffaroni joined her on 11 January 1975, and their daughter Mariana was born on 22 March 1975.

## Disappearance

The family was arrested on 27 September 1976 at their home in Parque Chacabuco, Buenos Aires. They were then taken to the clandestine detention center "Automotores Orletti." According to testimony given by Orestes Estanisalo Bello, the couple was interrogated by personnel from the Servicio de Inteligencia Uruguayo (SID). They were suspected to be members of OPR-33, a Uruguayan militant group based in Buenos Aires. Their detention and disappearance was part of the Dirty War tactics under "Operation Condor".
María Emilia was most likely moved to a final destination between 5 and 6 October 1976. She and Jorge Zaffaroni remain on a list of missing Uruguayans in Argentina.
Her mother, María Ester Gatti, was an active member of Madres y Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos. Due to her persistence, Islas' daughter was located in 1983, and her identity confirmed in 1993.