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# Battle of Point Pedro (2006)

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The Battle of Point Pedro was a naval battle that occurred on May 12, 2006 near Point Pedro, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan Navy was attacked by a group of Tamil Tiger boats. A group of SLN attack boats was escorting a troop transport, the MV Pearl Cruise II which was carrying 710 soldiers for the city of Jaffna which had been under siege for the previous six years.
About 15 Sea Tiger boats, including suicide boats, were engaged in the battle. One navy patrol boat P-148 and five Tiger boats were sunk. P-148 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Lalith Edirisinghe spotted the incoming rebels and recognized the bullets his crew was firing, to be ricocheting off the suicide craft. Upon seeing no other way to stop the craft, Edirisinghe sped towards the LTTE suicide craft and rammed it, causing the explosion to destroy both vessels, protecting the transport. Lieutenant Commander Edirisinghe including 16 other sailors were killed in action, while the LTTE had reported 54 of their own killed. Following the failed explosion, the LTTE boats retreated, repelling the attack .
# The Strode Venturer

The Strode Venturer is a thriller by British author Hammond Innes published in 1965.

## Plot

Geoffrey Bailey returns to London, leaving behind a career in the Royal Navy and a ruined marriage in Singapore. He becomes involved in the affairs of the Strode Shipping Company, the company which ruined his father's shipping firm, with a job offer to locate the black sheep of the Strode clan, Peter Strode, who was last seen in Aden. Bailey eventually locates Peter Strode in Addu, in the southern Maldive Islands, where he is obsessed with helping the nascent Addu People's Republic against the Maldive government, and with relocating an uninhabited island in the southern Indian Ocean which is rich in manganese deposits which can both help the Adduan people and the financially failing Strode Shipping Company. However, the ruling Strode brothers have other plans, which do not necessarily include the return of either Peter Strode or Bailey to London. In addition to the dangers of volcanic islands and the unexplored ocean, Bailey must also face the dangers of boardroom politics and financial warfare in civilised London.
The Strode Venturer is notable for strong characterization and the exploration of such themes as family honour, the bounds of loyalty and man's relationship to nature, themes which would continue in Innes' later works.
Like many of Innes' novels, the hero faces all sorts of obstacles, which he has to overcome, including a family tragedy. The psychological characterization of the hero gives the book an added interest.
An adaptation of the book was broadcast in BBC radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre in 1974, with Martin Jarvis playing Peter Strode.
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# Peperomia columella

Peperomia columella is a species of plant in the family of Piperaceae. The species is endemic to Peru. It grows in dry areas, often in crevices on steep cliffs or in sandy soil.
It grows to about 20 cm in height, forming snake-like stems, which carry closely packed, succulent bright green leaves. The leaves are truncated, U-shape in cross-section, with epidermal windows on top.
It can be kept as a houseplant and has received the Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society.
# Ancoa River

Ancoa is a river, tributary of the Achibueno, in Linares Province, Maule Region of Chile.
# Rock 'n' Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul)

Rock 'n' Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul) is a live album by Jeff Beck, recorded as a tribute album to the late guitarist Les Paul.
The album is recorded at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City where Les Paul played almost every week until his death in August 2009. It was recorded on 9 June 2010, which would have been Les Paul's 95th birthday. The songs played were popular hits from the 1950s and 1960s, including many songs Les Paul played himself. Jeff Beck is joined by Imelda May and her band, in addition to Jason Rebello, Brian Setzer, Trombone Shorty and Gary U.S. Bonds. On some of the songs, May sings together with a pre-recorded voice of herself, imitating the recording technique used on songs sung by Les Paul's wife Mary Ford.
The DVD has been certified gold in Canada as of November 2011.

## DVD Track listing

* "Baby Let's Play House" (Feat. Darrel Higham) –
* "Double Talking Baby" (Feat. Darrel Higham) – 2:08
* "Cruisin'" (Feat. Darrel Higham) 2:13"
* "The Train It Kept A Rollin'" (Feat. Darrel Higham)
* "Poor Boy" (Feat. Imelda May)
* "Cry Me A River" (Feat. Imelda May and Jason Rebello)
* "My Baby Left Me" (Feat. Imelda May)
* "How High The Moon" (Feat. Imelda May)
* "Sitting on Top of the World" (Feat. Imelda May)
* "Bye Bye Blues" (Feat. Imelda May)
* "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" (Feat. Imelda May)
* "Vaya Con Dios" (Feat. Imelda May)
* "Mockin' Bird Hill" (Feat. Imelda May)
* "I'm A Fool To Care" (Feat. Imelda May)
* "Tiger Rag" (Feat. Imelda May)
* "Peter Gunn" (Feat. Jason Rebello and Trombone Shorty)
* "Rocking Is Our Business" (Feat. Darrel Higham, Jason Rebello And Trombone Shorty)
* "Apache"
* "Sleep Walk"
* "New Orleans" (Feat. Gary U.S. Bonds and Jason Rebello)
* "Walking in the Sand" (Feat. Imelda May)
* "Please Mr. Jailer" (Feat. Imelda May)
* "Casting My Spell on You" (Feat. Imelda May and Darrel Higham)
* "Twenty Flight Rock" (Feat. Brian Setzer)
* "The Girl Can't Help It" (Feat. Darrel Higham and Jason Rebello)
* "Rock Around the Clock" (Feat. Darrel Higham)
* "Shake Rattle and Roll" (Feat. Darrel Higham, Brian Setzer, Jason Rebello and Trombone Shorty)
# Tai Tung (restaurant)

Tai Tung is the oldest surviving Chinese restaurant in the International District of Seattle. It was opened in 1935 by an immigrant from Hong Kong. The restaurant is the subject of a 2015 documentary, A Taste of Home, and was a location for the 2020 film The Paper Tigers. The restaurant's cellar is said to be haunted by kuei (ghosts). It is known for being busy on Christmas Day, when most Seattle restaurants are closed.

## Reception

Tai Tung was included in The Infatuation's 2025 list of the 25 best restaurants in the Chinatown–International District.
# Åke Svenson

Åke Svenson (born 29 March 1953) is a Swedish Olympic middle-distance runner. He represented his country in the men's 1500 meters at the 1976 Summer Olympics. His time was a 3:44.42 in the first heat. He also competed in the men's 800 metres, posting a 1:48.86 in the heats.
# Laura Kyrke-Smith

Laura Elizabeth Kyrke-Smith (born 15 September 1983) is a British politician, academic and charity worker who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aylesbury since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she is the first Labour MP for Aylesbury as well as the first female MP to represent Aylesbury in the House of Commons.

## Biography

Kyrke-Smith was born in September 1983 to Peter St. L Kyrke-Smith, son of BHS Kyrke-Smith of Penbedw estate near Nannerch in Wales, and to Lyndsay Madeleine Pelly, daughter of Peter Jeremy Pelly and his wife Dorothy Joan Hill. On her maternal side, through her grandfather her four-times great grandfather was the Hudson's Bay Company governor Sir John Pelly, 1st Baronet, and through her grandmother her three-times great-grandfather was Sir Robert Keith Alexander Dick-Cunyngham, 7/9th Baronet.
Kyrke-Smith was state educated before attending Robinson College, Cambridge, from 2002 to 2005, where she read history and volunteered with the charity Student Action for Refugees. She then went on to study for an MSc in international relations at the London School of Economics (LSE), graduating in 2007.
She was chair of the socialist society Labour Campaign for International Development from 2013 to 2017, and also worked at Portland Communications and in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a policy analyst.
In 2019 she became the UK Executive Director of the International Rescue Committee. From 2021-2024 she was on the Board of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC). She previously worked as an assistant to Professor Charlie Beckett at the Polis media project at the LSE.
She is credited as a reader-contributor to the 3rd edition of Lonely Planet's Tanzania and 2nd edition of The Rough Guide to Tanzania guidebooks.
In the 2021 Buckinghamshire Council elections Kyrke-Smith ran for Labour in the Little Chalfont & Amersham Common ward coming 8th out of the eleven candidates with 448 votes.
Since 2013, Kyrke-Smith has served as UK Executive Director of the International Rescue Committee. In the 2024 general election, she gained the Aylesbury seat from Rob Butler, a member of the Conservative Party. Her victory ended a century streak of Conservative and Unionist MPs in Aylesbury, starting in the 1924 general election.
In September 2024, Kyrke-Smith was appointed to the role of Labour's National Health Mission Delivery Champion.
# John D. Clifford House

The John D. Clifford House is a historic house in Lewiston, Maine. Built in 1926, it is one of a modest number of examples statewide of Mediterranean Revival, and the only one known to have been built as a year-round residence. The building features an eclectic mix of styles, and has a builtin garage, also a rarity for the period. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

## Description and history

The Clifford House is set on the north side of Ware Street, in a small residential area between Main Street (United States Route 202) and the Bates College campus, north of downtown Lewiston. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, constructed of Italian tile blocks and finished on the exterior in stucco. Its massing and broad hipped roof are suggestive of the Prairie School, but it has French wrought iron railings across the second-floor porch, arched window openings reminiscent of the Art Deco style, and modern steel casement windows. Its front door is set in a projecting vestibule section, and the door itself has a round-arch top in which is set a circular window. The house is set on a sloping lot with an exposed basement, which houses a garage (original to the design).
The house was designed by the local firm of Gibbs & Pulsifer, and was built in 1926. It is the only known example in the state of a Mediterranean Revival house built for year-round occupancy; all of the others were built along the state's coast for summer residents, and most were designed by out-of-state architects. John D. Clifford, Jr., for whom it was built, was an attorney who served briefly in the state legislature and as United States District Attorney, and was active in organizing the state's Democratic Party. He was judge of the Federal District Court for the District of Maine from 1947 until his death in 1956.
# Volodymyr Makukha

Volodymyr Oleksiyovych Makukha (Ukrainian: Володимир Олексійович Макуха; born 7 June 1955, Yaroslavl, Russia) is a Ukrainian politician and diplomat. Minister of Economy of Ukraine in the second Yanukovych government from 4 August 2006 to 21 March 2007. In 2006 he was the Ambassador of Ukraine in Japan.

## Education

In 1977 he graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University with a degree in mathematics. From September 1977 to November 1980, engineer of the Scientific and Production Association "Energy". He graduated from the graduate school of the Kyiv Institute of National Economy (1980-1984), candidate of economic sciences.

## Professional career

From May 1984 to December 1991 he was the head of the sector of the Ukrainian branch of the All-Union Research Institute of Consumer Cooperation. From January 1992 to October 1996, he was the head of the department of the Research Institute of Social and Economic Problems of Kyiv. Improving his qualifications, he participated in internship programs of the National Forum Foundation (Washington, USA, 1993), Harvard University (United States, 1994), New York University (USA, 1995), Georgetown University (USA, 1996), as well as short-term internship programs in Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain.
From October 1996 to February 2000, Deputy Head of Department of the National Agency of Ukraine for Development and European Integration. From February 2000 to June 2000, Deputy Head of Department of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine.
June 2000 - October 2003 - First Secretary, Economic Advisor, Embassy of Ukraine in the United States. October 2003 - July 2004 - Head of the Department of Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. July 2004 - May 2006 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Curator of the Economic Department, 5th Territorial Administration (Middle East and Africa), later the Development Department of the Diplomatic Service and the Monetary and Financial Department. Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Envoy of the 1st class (January 2005).
May 2006 - August 2006 - Ambassador of Ukraine to Japan.
August 4, 2006 - March 21, 2007 - Minister of Economy of Ukraine. Member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (September 2006 - February 2007). June 20, 2007 appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine. 1st rank civil servant (October 2007).
The author of several dozen scientific papers on international economics, foreign investment, and municipal development.
# Ayb (Armenian letter)

Ayb (majuscule: Ա; minuscule: ա; Armenian: այբ) is the first letter of the Armenian alphabet. It has a numerical value of 1. It represents the [ɑ] sound in both variants of the Armenian language. This letter and the letter Ben (Բբ) are the two first letters in the Armenian alphabet and forms the etymology of the Armenian word այբուբեն (aybuben), meaning "alphabet." It is one of the letters originally created by Mesrop Mashtots in the 5th century.
Its prototype is considered to be the Greek letter α (alpha) with the upper arc cut off. A number of Armenian letters are formed in a similar fashion.
It is homoglyphic to the IPA symbol for the close back unrounded vowel, the Cyrillic letter Sha (Шш), the former Zhuang letter Ɯɯ used from 1957 to 1986, and the Nushkuri form of the Georgian letter oni.

## Distribution

The letter Ա is the most common letter in the Armenian alphabet. It occurs mainly in initial or medial word positions and very rarely in final position. This is explained by the fact that the Proto-Armenian language lost word-final vowels in multisyllabic words.

## Meanings

As a unit, it is a symbol of God. This is because the words God—"Աստված", ⟨Astvadz(W.A.), Astvac'(E.A.)⟩—and Creator—"Արարիչ", ⟨Ararich⟩—begin with it. Thus, the symbolism of it corresponds to the Greek letter "alpha" in the Book of Revelation, where the Lord says, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end." (Revelation 1:8).

## Computing codes

Character information :
| Preview | Ա | Ա | ա | ա |
| Unicode name | ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER AYB | ARMENIAN CAPITAL LETTER AYB | ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER AYB | ARMENIAN SMALL LETTER AYB |
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1329 | U+0531 | 1377 | U+0561 |
| UTF-8 | 212 177 | D4 B1 | 213 161 | D5 A1 |
| Numeric character reference | &#1329; | &#x531; | &#1377; | &#x561; |

## Related characters and other similar characters

Similar characters
* ⴍ : Nuskhuri variant of the Georgian letter Oni
* Ш ш : Cyrillic letter Sha
* Ɯ ɯ : Turned M
* ɯ : Close back unrounded vowel
Related letters:
* A a : Latin letter A
* А а : Cyrillic letter A
* ა : Georgian letter Ani
* Α α : Greek alpha

## Gallery

* Rounded erkat'agir
* Angular erkat'agir
* Bolorgir
* Notrgir
* Shghagir
* Typographic form
* Handwritten form
* Braille form Dots-1
# 10 Cent Wings

10 Cent Wings is an album by the American musician Jonatha Brooke, released in 1997. It was her only album for MCA Records. The title refers to an ad a venue once ran to promote a Brooke live show. "Crumbs" was the first single.
The album peaked at No. 34 on Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart. Its singles were hits on adult album alternative radio stations.

## Production

The album was produced by Brooke's husband, Alain Mallet. "Glass Half Empty" is about the deceased musician Kevin Gilbert. Duke Levine contributed guitar parts to the album, and Bob Clearmountain served as mixing engineer.

## Critical reception

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− |
| The Indianapolis Star | |
| Los Angeles Daily News | |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | |
| Windsor Star | |
The Washington Post wrote that, "at times Brooke stretches her literary conceits too far, but her keyboardist-producer-arranger-husband Alain Mallet always wraps her appealing melodies in quirky, thickened chamber-pop arrangements." Entertainment Weekly praised Brooke's "complex, intensely melodic tunes and her uncliched, heartfelt poetry." The New York Times concluded that Brooke "ventures further into torchy folk-pop with high literary aspirations."
The Los Angeles Daily News thought that the "startlingly mature collection is eclectic and electric with Brooke supplying acoustic guitar and emotionally charged, first-rate material." The Chicago Tribune determined that, "while her strong new album ... doesn't completely sidestep the occasional cliché, the songs generally showcase a noteworthy artistry." The Indianapolis Star stated that Brooke's "conversational style is accessible and perfectly suited for her musical tone—folky and earth-toned, with strings, horns and electronics painting some of the backdrop." The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel listed the album as the sixth best of 1997.
AllMusic wrote that "Mallet pastes together various genres without meshing them, and often the verses, chorus and bridge each have a radically different style." No Depression determined that Brooke "made exactly the right record at exactly the right time—1997’s 10 Cent Wings, released the same year Lilith Fair made her brand of classy female-centric folk-pop all the rage—and found herself bounced from the major-label ranks for her trouble."
# List of rectores magnifici of Delft University of Technology

A rector of a Dutch university is called a rector magnificus. The following people have been rector magnificus of Delft University of Technology or its predecessor, Technische Hogeschool Delft:
| Period | Name |
| juli 1905 - augustus 1905 | Jacob Kraus |
| 1905-1907 | Sebastiaan Hoogewerff |
| 1907-1910 | Stephanus Gerhard Everts |
| 1909-1913 | Jacob Cardinaal |
| 1913-1916 | Willem Karel Behrens |
| 1916-1919 | Johan Christiaan Dijxhoorn |
| 1919-1920 | Marc de Haas |
| 1920-1921 | Johannes Nelemans |
| 1921-1922 | J.A.G. van der Steur |
| 1922-1923 | Louis van Royen |
| 1923-1924 | Cornelis van der Bilt |
| 1924-1925 | Clarence Feldmann |
| 1925-1926 | Gerrit van Iterson jr. |
| 1926-1927 | Willem Janssen van Raay |
| 1927-1928 | NIcolaas Kist |
| 1928-1929 | Karel Sluyterman |
| 1929-1930 | Frans Westendorp |
| 1930-1931 | Herman S. Hallo |
| 1931-1932 | Henri ter Meulen |
| 1932-1933 | Jan Adolf Grutterink |
| 1933-1934 | Johannes George Rutgers |
| 1934-1935 | Willem Reinders |
| 1935-1936 | Gerardus Diehl |
| 1936-1937 | Gerhard Elias |
| 1937-1938 | Cornelis Biezeno |
| 1938-1939 | Jan Schouten |
| 1939-May 1940 | Joannes Antonius Veraart |
| May 1940-February 1942 | Cornelis Johannes van Nieuwenburg |
| April 1942-September 1943 | Henk Dorgelo |
| 1943-1944 | Joan Muysken |
| June 1945-1946 | H.J. van der Maas |
| 1946-1947 | Jacob Tienstra |
| 1947-1948 | Hein Waterman |
| 1948-January 1949 | Albert Kluyver |
| 1949-1951 | Cornelis Biezeno |
| 1951-1959 | Oene Bottema |
| 1959-1962 | Ralph Kronig |
| 1962-1967 | H.J. de Wijs |
| 1967-1970 | Cornelis Verhagen |
| 1970 - 1973 | Hans van Nauta Lemke |
| 1973-1975 | H.B. Boerema |
| 1975-1976 | Herman van Bekkum |
| 1976-1978 | Leendert Huisman |
| 1978-1981 | Frits Jan Kievits |
| 1981-1985 | Bernard P.Th. Veltman |
| 1985-1988 | Hans Dirken |
| 1989-1993 | Pieter Alletinus Schenck |
| 1993-1997 | Karel Wakker |
| 1997-1998 | Johan Blaauwendraad |
| 1998-2002 | Karel Wakker |
| 2002-2010 | Jacob Fokkema |
| 2010-2018 | Karel Luyben |
| 2018- | Tim van der Hagen |
# Russia–Vanuatu relations

The Republic of Vanuatu and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics established official diplomatic relations on June 30, 1986 – three months to the day before Vanuatu established diplomatic relations with the United States. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation emerged as its successor state in 1991.
In December 2011, Vanuatu appointed Thitam Goiset, president of the Nagriamel and John Frum movements and sister of businessman Dinh Van Than, as ambassador to Russia.

## History

Vanuatu, which became independent from France and the United Kingdom in 1980, was led by Prime Minister Father Walter Lini, founder of the doctrine of Melanesian socialism, from 1980 to 1991. Lini's foreign policy was one of non-alignment, manifested by Vanuatu joining the Non-Aligned Movement in 1983. His government was the only one in Oceania at the time which refused to align with the Western bloc during the dying stages of the Cold War. Lini sought to maintain cordial, though not particularly close, relations with the Soviet Union. There was never any suggestion of Vanuatu aligning with the Eastern bloc; Lini was not a Marxist, and there was no Communist Party in Vanuatu.
In 1987, Vanuatu authorised Soviet vessels to fish within Vanuatu's Exclusive Economic Zone, in exchange for economic aid. The agreement lapsed the following year, and was not renewed, due to disagreements over the price to be paid for fishing rights by the USSR.
The year 1991 was marked both by the end of Lini's last term in office and by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Thereafter, relations between Port-Vila and Moscow were virtually non-existent.
In 2011, however, Vanuatu (under Prime Minister Sato Kilman) did follow Russia's lead in recognising the breakaway Georgian province of Abkhazia as a sovereign state. Foreign Affairs Minister Alfred Carlot "offered little explanation for the decision [but] did give hints. He said he had studied at Moscow’s diplomatic academy during Soviet days, and that Vanuatu’s foreign policy aims at “eradicating colonialism from the face of the earth.”"
In 2021, French diplomat Bernard Leclerc was appointed the Special Envoy to the Russian Federation for the Republic of Vanuatu.
In 2022, Vanuatu voted in favor of a UN General Assembly resolution to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and demand that Russia immediately withdraw all troops.
# John Drinker House

John Drinker House is a historic home located at Bunker Hill, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built about 1815 and is a two-story, five-bay, limestone dwelling in the Federal style. It features an arched stone main entrance. The property includes the ruins of a log home that pre-dates the Drinker House, ruins of a stone smokehouse, and the ruins of slave quarters. A dump pile is also located on the property. The house was built by John Drinker (1760–1826), a Quaker portrait artist from Philadelphia. The house is believed to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.