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# Apryl Fool

Apryl Fool (エイプリル・フール) were a Japanese rock band formed in 1969. They released one album in September 1969 and disbanded a month later. Two members of Apryl Fool went on to form folk rock band Happy End.

## Outline

The predecessor of Apryl Fool were Floral, a band created by the Japanese Monkees Fan Club in February 1968. Floral debuted on Nippon Columbia in August 1968 during the Group Sounds craze. Floral split due to artistic differences and Apryl Fool was formed on April 1, 1969, with a new bassist (Haruomi Hosono) and a new drummer (Rei Matsumoto). The name Apryl Fool was derived from the date of the band's formation and from the idea that "with this name, we can do things quite freely without being elaborated upon or irresponsibly".
Around the time of the change of members, core member Hiroyoshi Yanagida became interested in organ rock groups like Iron Butterfly, Vanilla Fudge, and The Doors, which were representative of art rock/psychedelic rock in the US and UK. Unlike the blues rock (guitar-oriented) that was popular in Japan in 1969 (The Golden Cups, Blues Creation, The Mops, etc.), Apryl Fool's sound was considered radical at the time. They were one of the pioneering bands in the Japanese "new rock" movement, which advocated Anglo-American rock.
The Apryl Fool released their debut, and only, album The Apryl Fool on September 27, 1969. In a retrospective review Sean Westergaard of AllMusic described the album as "a great mixture of hard psych and blues-rock". The album includes a cover of the song "Pledging My Time" by Bob Dylan. Only two of the tracks are sung in Japanese ("Suite: Mother Earth" and "Dark Sunday"), as the band believed that "only English could be used to understand the reaction in other countries." Pitchfork described the Japanese tracks on Apryl Fool as "suffused with lysergic vibrations."
Apryl Fool played their final show in Ginza on October 26, 1969, and broke up. The next day, Hosono and Matsumoto formed Happy End under the name Blue Valentine. In March 2019 Hosono released Hochono House, a remade version of his debut solo album, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his first release with Apryl Fool.

## Members

* Chu Kosaka – vocals
* Eiji Kikuchi – guitar
* Hiro Yanagida – keyboard
* Haruomi Hosono – bass guitar
* Rei Matsumoto – drums

## Discography
### Studio albums

* Apryl Fool (September 27, 1969) – Columbia LP: YS-10068-J

### Extended plays

* Love & Banana with Tokyo Kid Brothers [d; ja] (ラブ&バナナ, late 1969) – Musicolor LP: unnumbered

### The Floral

A predecessor band of The April Fools, which debuted from a company specializing in picture disc manufacturing. Kosaka, Kikuchi, and Yanagida joined the band.
* Namida Wha Hanabira (涙は花びら, August, 1968）- Musicoror / Nippon Colombia EP:MA1
       Namida Wha Hanabira（涙は花びら, "Tears are petals")
       Suiheisen No Bara（水平線の薔薇, "Roses on the Horizon")
* Samayou Hune (さまよう船, October, 1968）- Musicoror / Nippon Colombia EP:MA2
       Samayou Hune (さまよう船 "A wandering ship")
       Ai No Memory (愛のメモリー "Memories of Love")
# Ferdinand Dahl

Ferdinand Dahl (born 17 July 1998) is a Norwegian freestyle skier.
Ferdinand Dahl has 3 medals in X Games. He won bronze in slopestyle at Aspen in 2019, silver in slopestyle at Aspen in 2021, and bronze in slopestyle at Aspen in 2023. In January 2024, he secured victory in the X Games SLVSH Cup.
Dahl has achieved 9 podium finishes in the World Cup. He finished second overall in the World Cup Slopestyle rankings in 2018 and 2019.
He represented Norway in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, where he placed 8th in slopestyle. He also represented Norway in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Ferdinand Dahl is one of the founders of Capeesh Supply who manufactures ski clothing and JibLeague, that organize freeski competitions in Europe and the USA.
# Sandro Dias

Sandro Dias, known as Mineirinho, is a Brazilian professional vert skateboarder who was born on April 18, 1975, in Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil and currently resides in Santa Ana, California. He started skateboarding in 1986 and turned pro in 1995. Best known for his high alley oop air tricks and for being one of ten people confirmed to have pulled the 900. He won the gold medal at X Games 12 in Skateboard Vert. He is sponsored by Red Bull, Oakley, & Positiv Skateboards. He won the world vert skateboarding titles in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007.
In 2011 Dias captured his sixth world vert skateboarding title. He beat out his close friend and teammate 8-time champion Andy Macdonald by only 50 championship points.
# David Duncan (ski cross)

Dave Duncan (born July 15, 1982 in London, Ontario) is a World Cup freestyle skier. Duncan is currently a member of the Canadian National Ski Cross Team.

## Career

Duncan had a successful and breakout season during the 2009–10 Freestyle Skiing World Cup. Duncan earned his first career World Cup top ten finish, placing 9th at the World Cup in Branaes, Sweden. David Duncan needed to finish 5th or better at the January 24, Lake Placid ski-cross event to qualify for the Olympics. In the final Duncan won bronze thereby qualifying him for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Alongside his bronze at Lake Placid Duncan also won a bronze medal in St. Johann in Tirol/Oberndorf, Austria on January 5.
Besides being a freestyle skier David Duncan is an aspiring helicopter pilot, Duncan also graduated from the University of Alaska after four years of schooling. He is sponsored by Stoeckli, POC, Osisko, Boler MTN and Mount 7 Lodges.
During a training run at the 2010 Winter Olympics, Dave broke his collarbone and therefore was not able to compete. Taking his place was supposed to be Brady Leman of Calgary, Alberta. However, Leman aggravated a broken tibia he suffered the previous year and was also unable to compete. Replacing both of them was Davey Barr of Brackendale, British Columbia.
Duncan competed for Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and finished eighth in ski cross. On February 24, he, along with his wife Maja and technical ski coach Willy Raine, were arrested in Pyeongchang for stealing a car while under the influence on their way back to the Olympic Village. They were later released and fined for the incident and were not allowed to participate in the closing ceremony.

## Notable results

–1st - World Cup, Innichen, ITA (21/12/2013)
–1st - World Cup, Innichen, ITA (22/12/2013)
–1st - Canadian National Championships, Canada Olympic Park, CAN (23/03/2009)
–2nd - World Cup, Bischofsweisen/Goetschen, GER (26/2/2012)
–3rd - World Cup, Val Thorens, FRA (17/1/2014)
–4th - World Cup, Innichen, ITA (22/12/2016)
–6th - World Cup, Arosa, SUI (12/12/2017)
–8th - 2018 Winter Olympics, Pyeongchang, KOR (21/2/2018)
# C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya–Jones)

C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya–Jones) is a long-period comet from the Oort cloud discovered on November 18, 2000, by Syogo Utsunomiya and Albert F. A. L. Jones. The comet reached up to apparent magnitude 5.5, but was only 27 degrees from the Sun in mid-December 2000.
The comet has an observation arc of 58 days allowing a reasonable estimate of the orbit. Though the near-perihelion orbit solution shows the comet to be on a hyperbolic trajectory, the orbit of a long-period comet is properly obtained when the osculating orbit is computed at an epoch after leaving the planetary region and is calculated with respect to the center of mass of the Solar System. Using JPL Horizons, the barycentric orbital elements for epoch 2020-Jan-01 generate a semi-major axis of 835 AU, an aphelion distance of 1670 AU, and a period of approximately 24,000 years.
C/2000 W1 came to perihelion on 26 December 2000 when it passed 0.321 AU (48.0 million km; 29.8 million mi; 125 LD) from the Sun. It was last observed in February–March 2001 when it faded suddenly and probably disintegrated.
# Cap Canaille (film)

Cap Canaille is a 1983 French drama film directed by Juliet Berto and Jean-Henri Roger. It was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival.

## Cast

* Juliet Berto as Paula Baretto
* Richard Bohringer as Robert Vergès
* Jean-Claude Brialy as Me Samuel Kebadjan
* Bernadette Lafont as Mireille Kebadjan
* Patrick Chesnais as Wim
* Gérard Darmon as Nino Baretto
* Richard Anconina as Mayolles
* Nini Crépon as Dugrand
* Raúl Gimenez as Ernest la gâchette
* Andrex as Pascal Andreucci
* Jean Maurel as Ange Andreucci
* Toni Cecchinato as Hugo Zipo
* Richard Martin as Jo l'architecte
* Isabelle Ho as Miss Li
# Digital Duke

Digital Duke is an album by Mercer Ellington and the Duke Ellington Orchestra that won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 1988.

## Personnel

* Mercer Ellington – conductor
* Clark Terry – flugelhorn, trumpet
* Lew Soloff – flugelhorn, trumpet
* Barry Hall – flugelhorn, trumpet
* Ron Tooley – flugelhorn, trumpet
* Kamau Adilifu – flugelhorn, trumpet
* Al Grey – trombone
* Britt Woodman – trombone
* Chuck Connors – bass trombone
* Eddie Daniels – clarinet, tenor sax
* Herman Riley – clarinet, tenor sax
* Charles Owens – clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone sax
* Norris Turney – alto sax
* Branford Marsalis – tenor sax
* Roland Hanna – piano
* Gerald Wiggins – piano
* Bucky Pizzarelli – guitar
* J. J. Wiggins – bass
* Louie Bellson – drums
* Ricky White – drums
Source:
Production
* Dave Grusin – executive producer
* Larry Rosen – executive producer
* Mercer Ellington – producer
* Michael Abene – producer
* Ed Rak – engineer
* Rebecca Everett – assistant engineer
* Josiah Gluck – digital mixing, editing
* Ted Jensen – digital mastering
* Leonard Feather – liner notes
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# Gigadō Ashiyuki

Gigadō Ashiyuki (戯画堂 芦幸) was a designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints in Osaka, who was active from about 1813 to 1833. He was a pupil of Asayama Ashikuni, and was also a haiku poet. Ashiyuki is best known for his ōban sized (about 14 by 10 inches or 36 by 25 centimeters), prints of kabuki actors, although he also illustrated books, and designed surimono.

## Nagakuni

Gigadō Ashiyuki used the name "Nagakuni" (長国) from about 1814 to 1821. There is another Osaka printmaker who in known as either Shūei Nagakuni or as Naniwa Nagakuni. This latter artist was a student of Nagahide and was active from about 1814 to the 1820s.

## Collections

His work is held in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, the Van Gogh Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Finnish National Gallery, the Birmingham Museums, the British Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum.
# Bill Koski

William John Koski (February 6, 1932 – July 12, 2014) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Listed at 6' 4" (1.93 m), 185 lb. (84 kg), he batted and threw right handed. Born in Madera, California, Koski was one of the many young players whose baseball careers were interrupted by military service in Korean War.
He starred at Modesto High School and, at age 18 in June 1950, signed a contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates, receiving a signing bonus of $6,000 (equivalent to $76,000 in 2023), just under the threshold to avoid being affected by the bonus rule.
He pitched in 13 games for the Pirates during the 1951 season. He posted a 0–1 record and a 6.67 earned run average, allowing 23 runs (20 earned) on 26 hits and 28 walks, while striking out seven in 27.0 innings of work.
In his only starting assignment, Koski lasted 4⅓ innings against the New York Giants at Polo Grounds, giving up three earned runs on four hits and six walks, striking out two of the 23 batters he faced. The Giants won, 8–3, as he was credited with the loss.
′′T-Bone′′, as he was nicknamed, started 1952 back in the Minor Leagues, but his stuff impressed Pirates' owner Branch Rickey so much that the club tried to recall Koski to the big club early in August. Koski, however, had been drafted into the Army and needed to report for duty on August 21.
Following his discharge in 1954, Koski returned to the minors and pitched until 1957. In a seven-season career, he had a record of 39-48 with a 4.14 ERA in 138 pitching appearances.
After retiring, Koski moved to Modesto, California, where he worked as a draftsman for the Stanislaus County Planning Department. Besides, he stayed involved in amateur baseball as a coach in youth leagues and as the pitching coach at California State University, Stanislaus.
Koski died in 2014 at the age of 82 in Modesto.

## Sources

* 1 2 3 "Baseball Reference – Major League career".
* ↑ "Modesto Pitcher Signs Contract with Pirates". Stockton Evening and Sunday Record. Associated Press. June 29, 1950. p. 34. Retrieved February 7, 2024.
* ↑ Retrosheet box score : New York Giants 8, Pittsburgh Pirates 3. Game Played on Saturday, May 5, 1951 (D) at Polo Grounds V
* ↑ The Modesto Bee : Jeff Jardine column - Top News
* 1 2 "Baseball Reference – Minor League career".
# Welf I

Welf I or Welfo (died before 876) was a Swabian nobleman. He was a member of the Elder House of Welf.
Welf was probably a son of Conrad I of Auxerre, and seems to have taken over his father's offices in Swabia, namely: count of Alpgau, count of Linzgau, and possibly count of Argengau. However, when Conrad and his other sons changed allegiance from King Louis the German to his half-brother King Charles the Bald in 859, Welf disappears from the historical record. It is assumed that he fell out of favor with King Louis and lost his offices; the Swabian branch of the Elder Welfs was not mentioned again until Rudolf II, Count of Altdorf, who died around 990 and was — according to legend — a descendant of Welf.

## Genealogy

His son was Eticho, count of Ammergau (died after 911), who married Egila and had a son:
* Henry, Count of the Golden Wagon; who married Atha von Hohenwart and had issue:
** Rudolf I, Count of Altdorf, who married Siburgis and had a son:
*** Rudolf II, Count of Altdorf.

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# Ian Alexander (footballer)

Ian Alexander (born 26 January 1963) is a Scottish former professional footballer, who played the majority of his career at Bristol Rovers.
Alexander played for Rotherham United, Motherwell and Morton, and spent a year playing in Cyprus with Pezoporikos Larnaca, before joining Rovers in 1986. He was appointed manager of Yate Town in 1997. He then managed Wotton Rovers in 2000.

## Personal life

In October 2024, Alexander revealed his CTE diagnosis, revealing that he only had a few years to live. CTE is believed to result from repeated head trauma and has left him with severe brain damage sustained during his 13-year playing career. He is among a group of former players pursuing legal action against the Football Association (FA) over the long-term effects of head injuries in football.
# Deutsch-Polnische Gesellschaft Bundesverband

Deutsch-Polnische Gesellschaft Bundesverband (DPG, Polish: Federalny Związek Towarzystw Niemiecko-Polskich) is a society of different regional associations which promote reconciliation and cultural exchange of Germany and Poland. It was founded in 1996, succeeding the Bundesverband deutsch-polnischer Gesellschaften, which was founded in 1987. One of the goals is the integration of Poland in the European Union. The organization is based in Berlin.
The association publishes a quarterly bilingual magazine, Dialog [de].
Beginning in 2005, the association has awarded an annually a prize, also called DIALOG, to persons and organisations that are "a model for the dialogue of nations and cultures in Europe, and the improvement of German-Polish relations" ("... in vorbildlicher Art und Weise für den Dialog der Völker und Kulturen in Europa sowie die Vertiefung der deutsch-polnischen Beziehungen engagieren").
Recipients include:
* 2005: Tygodnik Powszechny, Kraków weekly
* 2006: Pogranicze Foundation [pl], in Sejny
* 2007: Christliche Bildungsinitiative
* 2008: Steffen Möller, writer and Kabarett artist
* 2009: Ludwig Mehlhorn, Wolfgang Templin
* 2010: Klaus Zernack [de; pl], historian, and Kowalski trifft Schmidt, TV magazine
* 2011: Institut für angewandte Geschichte, in Frankfurt (Oder)
* 2012: Artur Becker [ar; de; pl], writer
* 2013: Grażyna Słomka, Adam Krzemiński, publicists
* 2014: Lech Wałęsa and the Interregionaler Gewerkschaftsrat Elbe-Neiße
* 2015: Zofia Posmysz, writer, and Osteuropa [de], magazine
* 2016: Marek Prawda, diplomat
* 2017: Martin Pollack, journalist and literature translator
# Manually Coded Malay

Kod Tangan Bahasa Malaysia (KTBM), or Manually Coded Malay, is a signed form of the Malay language recognized by the government in Malaysia and the Malaysian Ministry of Education. It aids teachers in teaching the Malay language to deaf students in formal education settings. It is not a language but a manually coded form of Malay. It was adapted from American Sign Language (or Manually Coded English), with the addition of some local signs, plus grammatical signs to represent Malay affixation of nouns and verbs. It is used in Deaf schools to teach the Malay language.
The official Malaysian Sign Language, known as Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia, is the official sign language the Malaysian government recognizes to communicate with the deaf community, including on official broadcasts. It is a language in its own right and not a manual coding of the Malay language like KTBM. It has been found that Malaysian Sign Language is more effective in teaching students than Manually Coded Malay.
# 2007 Syrian presidential election

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A referendum to confirm the presidential candidate Bashar al-Assad was held in Syria on 27 May 2007, after the People's Council of Syria unanimously voted to propose the incumbent for a second term on 10 May 2007.

## Electoral system

According to the Syrian Constitution, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party of Syria is the leader of the state and society and thus, the President should be a member of the party. The National Progressive Front, a political coalition led by the Ba'ath Party, nominated a candidate in the People's Council. The candidate had to be approved by at least two-thirds of MPs to proceed to the referendum, in which a candidate had to receive at least 51% of the vote.

## Conduct

The referendum was widely regarded as a formality, and was boycotted by the opposition. Political opposition groups were banned unless attached to the Ba'ath Party, meaning Assad was the only candidate allowed to run. It was reported that dissent was met with imprisonment and intimidation. Fear of government reprisal was said to have been pervasive. Critics accused Assad of rampant corruption, mass arrests against dissidents, and suppression of pro-democracy activists.
Members of the Damascus Declaration issued a statement which said calls to amend the constitution to allow for freer elections were ignored. Syrian lawyer Haitham al-Maleh stated "there is only one candidate and this is absolutely not a healthy process." Tom Casey, American spokesman for the State Department, said "I'm sure President Assad is basking in the glow of his ability to have defeated exactly zero other candidates and continue his misrule of Syria," and that "clearly there was no real choice here for the Syrian people."

## Results

| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Bashar al-Assad | Ba'ath Party | 11,199,445 | 99.82 |
| Against | Against | Against | 19,653 | 0.18 |
| Total | Total | Total | 11,219,098 | 100.00 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | Valid votes | 11,219,098 | 97.79 |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 253,059 | 2.21 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 11,472,157 | 100.00 |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 11,967,611 | 95.86 |
| Source: IFES |||||

## Aftermath

Interior Minister Bassam Abdel Majeed claimed "this great consensus shows the political maturity of Syria and the brilliance of our democracy", while the ministry described voter turnout as "enormous". The information minister, Muhsen Bilal, stated that "we have our own style of democracy and we are proud of it."
# Diadesmola

Diadesmola is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae. It contains the single species Diadesmola bicolor, which is found in Irian Jaya.
# Ralph Rivers

Ralph Julian Rivers (May 23, 1903 – August 13, 1976) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as the first United States Representative from Alaska, serving from statehood in 1959 to his resignation in 1966 following his defeat by Republican Howard W. Pollock. He previously served as the shadow U.S. Representative from Alaska Territory from 1956 to 1959.

## Biography

Born in Seattle, Washington to Louisa Zenaide (née Lavoy) and Julian Guy Rivers, Rivers attended grammar school in Flat, Alaska, and Franklin High School in Seattle. He worked as a gold miner in Flat from 1921 to 1923, and then earned an LL.B. from the University of Washington School of Law in 1929. He then worked as a lawyer in private practice for several years.
Rivers was a lifelong civil servant, working in a number of public positions throughout his life. He served as United States Attorney for District of Alaska, from 1933 to 1944. He was then elected as the attorney general of Alaska, serving from 1945 to 1949. He was the chair of the Employment Security Commission of Alaska from 1950 to 1952, and then became the mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska from 1952 to 1954. In 1954 he was also president of the League of Alaskan Cities. He was a member of the Alaska Territorial Senate in 1955, and was the second vice president of the Alaska Constitutional Convention at College, Alaska in 1955 and 1956. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1960, 1964, and 1968.
Rivers appeared on the game show To Tell the Truth as contestant #1 in the second group of contestants on June 2, 1959. Rivers died at his home in Chehalis, Washington on the morning of August 13, 1976.

## U.S. House of Representatives

In 1957 and 1958, Rivers was a United States Representative-elect under the Alaska-Tennessee Plan in Washington, D.C., on a provisional basis, pending statehood. Upon the admission of Alaska as a State into the Union, he was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1959 until December 30, 1966. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966, resigning days before the end of his term.
While in Congress, he voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He voted as well for the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

## Electoral history

Alaska's at-large congressional district: Results 1958–1966
| Year | Republican | Votes | Pct | Democrat | Votes | Pct |
| 1958 | Henry A. Benson | 20,699 | 42.5% | Ralph J. Rivers | 27,948 | 57.5% |
| 1960 | R. L. Rettig | 25,517 | 43.2% | Ralph J. Rivers (inc.) | 33,546 | 56.8% |
| 1962 | Lowell Thomas, Jr. | 26,638 | 44% | Ralph J. Rivers (inc.) | 33,953 | 56% |
| 1964 | Lowell Thomas, Jr. | 32,556 | 48.5% | Ralph J. Rivers (inc.) | 34,590 | 51.5% |
| 1966 | Howard W. Pollock | 34,040 | 51.6% | Ralph J. Rivers (inc.) | 31,867 | 48.4% |
# Guadeloupe Passage

The Guadeloupe Passage is a strait in the Caribbean. It separates Guadeloupe from Montserrat and from Antigua and Barbuda.