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# Dryophthorus distinguendus

Dryophthorus distinguendus was a species of beetle in family Curculionidae. It was endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.
# Janine Connes

Janine Connes (née Roux, 19 May 1926 – 28 November 2024) was a French astronomer whose research led to the establishment of the Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy method, which was of major significance and laid the foundations of what was to grow into a significant new field.
Connes was married to Pierre Connes [fr], a fellow astronomer, until his death in 2019. The couple often conducted research together. Together with her husband and Robert B. Leighton, they were nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1970.

## Research

The Connes work was primarily in analysing the Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy technique, a field the couple began studying in 1954 in Laboratoire Aimé-Cotton directed by Pierre Jacquinot. Her 1961 thesis and subsequent publications gave in-depth analysis of the practical details necessary for its use, with her thesis credited for establishing many of the early design principles.
She collaborated and travelled often to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA. With her husband Pierre Connes she imaged Venus and Mars at the Observatoire du Pic du Midi de Bigorre using the method, presenting images far better than others taken at the time. Connes identified the registration advantage of using interferometry. This result is known as Connes' advantage.
She was the founder of the Centre inter-régional de calcul électronique (CIRCÉ) in Orsay in 1969, attached to the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She works there as director of the center until 1982. She left this position to work as the director of scientific informatics of the CNRS.
Connes died on 28 November 2024, at the age of 98.

## Awards

She was awarded the Prix Aimé Cotton by the Société Française de Physique in 1961.

## Publications

Source:
* "The Field of Application of the Fourier Transform Method," J. Phys. Radium 19: 197 (1958)
* "A Study of the Night Sky in the Near Infrared," J. Phys. Radium 21: 645 (1960), with H.P. Gush [in French]
* "Near-Infrared Planetary Spectra by Fourier Spectroscopy. I. Instruments and Results," Journal of the Optical Society of America 56: 896 (1966), with P. Connes [in English]
The following four papers are" fundamental works of extreme importance to the field" -- Professor Ian McLean.
* "Spectroscopic Studies Using Fourier Transformations," Rev. Opt. 40 (no.2): 45 (1961) [in French]
* "Spectroscopic Studies Using Fourier Transformations," Rev. Opt. 40 (no.3): 116 (1961) [in French]
* "Spectroscopic Studies Using Fourier Transformations," Rev. Opt. 40 (no.4): 171 (1961) [in French]
* "Spectroscopic Studies Using Fourier Transformations," Rev. Opt. 40 (no.5): 231 (1961) [in French]
* "Fourier Transform Spectroscopy: Introductory Report," Mem. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liège 9: 81 (1964) [in French]
# Lance Payne

Lancelot David Payne (11 April 1933 – 16 November 2011) was a New Zealand racing cyclist, who competed for his country in the road race at two British Empire and Commonwealth Games, and won three national road race titles.

## Biography

Born in Palmerston North on 11 April 1933, Payne was the son of David Payne and Rona Angelina (Mavis) Payne (née Thompson). He grew up on a farm at Glen Oroua and left home when he was 15 years old. He worked as a Post Office clerk and took up cycling in 1950. Two years later, he won the first of his three New Zealand national road race titles, with the other victories coming in 1954 and 1958.
Payne represented New Zealand in the road race at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. He was unplaced after being part of a two-man breakaway with Malcolm Campbell of Wales that led for most of the race before being overtaken on the penultimate lap. Four years later, Payne again competed in British Empire and Commonwealth Games road race. He was in the leading group of three riders with 11 kilometres (7 mi) remaining, but punctured and eventually finished in 11th place.
In 1959, Payne was struck by a car in a head-on collision at Paremata, but he recovered and continued his amateur cycling career, winning the Tour of Manawatū in 1962, before retiring two years later.
In 1980, Payne left the Post Office and ran a dairy at Plimmerton for a time. He then worked as the caretaker on Mana Island for the Department of Lands and Survey. After he removed the last cattle from the island, it was designated as a reserve. He then served as the lighthouse keeper on The Brothers in Cook Strait, until it was automated and no longer staffed in 1990.
Payne died in Nelson on 16 November 2011.
# Haji Özbek Mosque

Haji Özbek Mosque (Turkish: Hacı Özbek Camii) is a historical Ottoman mosque in İznik, Turkey.

## The Mosque

The Haji Özbek Mosque (1333) in Iznik, which was the first important centre of Ottoman art, is a prime example of Ottoman single-domed mosque, which illustrates a combination of Byzantine building techniques and Muslim needs. According to the inscriptive plaque (kitabe) above a window, the mosque was built by Haci Özbek bin Muhammed in the year 1333 (734 A.H.), two years after the Ottoman conquest of İznik by the Ottoman sultan Orhan I. The building is a single-unit mosque composed of a square hall crowned with a dome, which is eight metres (26 ft) in diameter. The drum of the dome of the mosque is dodecagonal and adorned with a band of triangular planes on the interior. The mosque consists of a triple layer of brick with alternating layers of individually cut stone separated by vertically laid brick.
In 1939 the three-bay portico preceding the hall to the west was demolished, to make space for road expansion. The portico, was roofed with a barrel vault to the south and a mirror vault on the north. In the place of the demolished portico, a new enclosed portico was added to the northern side of the building in the year 1959. The mosque never had a minaret. The ornamental details of the interior have been lost under the layers of plaster. For the construction of the mosque, brick and rubble stone, was used, together with saw-toothed brick cornices at the top of the walls and terracotta tiles were used on the brick dome.
# Van Auken Creek

Van Auken Creek is a 8.2-mile-long (13.2km) tributary of the Lackawaxen River in Wayne County, Pennsylvania in the United States.
Van Auken Creek and the West Branch Lackawaxen River join near Prompton to form the main stem of the Lackawaxen River.
# Earl Mossor

Earl Dalton Mossor (July 21, 1925 – December 29, 1988) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played in three games for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1951 season. Listed at 6' 1", 175 lb., Mossor batted left handed and threw right handed. A single in his only at-bat left Mossor with a rare MLB career batting average of 1.000.
He was born in Forbus, Tennessee.
Mossor also pitched with several Minor league teams in 12 seasons spanning 1946–1959.
In 1946, he would go 21-8 while pitching 239 innings for the Clinton Blues in the Tobacco State League, but his team lost the league title by a half-game and was also beaten in the final round of the playoffs, four to three games.
His most productive campaign came in 1950 with the Portsmouth Cubs, when he posted a 20–11 record and a 2.98 ERA in a career-high 257 innings, helping his team to the Piedmont League pennant and putting him on the All-Star team.
Mossor also pitched for the Cervecería Caracas club of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League in the 1951–1952 and 1952–1953 tournaments, compiling an undefeated 10–0 record and a 2.74 ERA in both stints, while leading his team to the VPBL pennant in 1952–1953.
Following his baseball career, Mossor worked as a sheet metal mechanic. He died in 1988 in Batavia, Ohio, at the age of 63.
# Joel McKeon

Joel Jacob McKeon (born February 25, 1963) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for two seasons. He played for the Chicago White Sox for 30 games during the 1986 Chicago White Sox season and 13 games during the 1987 Chicago White Sox season.
McKeon grew up in Erlanger, Kentucky but moved to Florida before high school. McKeon attended South Broward High School in Hollywood, Florida and played college baseball at Miami Dade College. In 1987, South Broward dedicated its baseball clubhouse to McKeon.
He was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in 1982 and assigned to the Gulf Coast League to begin his professional career.
McKeon's wrist was injured early in spring training in 1986 but he performed well enough in the first month of the Triple-A season to earn his first promotion to the Major Leagues on May 7, 1986. Outfielder Rodney Craig was promoted to make room for him on the roster. He made his Major League debut on May 6 against the New York Yankees; he pitched a scoreless two thirds of an inning in relief of Dave Schmidt. He recorded the only save of his career on June 6 of that season, retiring both Oakland Athletics batters he faced in the bottom of the ninth inning. In July, McKeon contracted hepatitis in Cleveland and was hospitalized in Chicago. He was placed on the disabled list and would not return that season.
In 1987, McKeon was demoted to the minor leagues on June 4 after eleven appearances with the White Sox. On June 30, pitcher Ray Searage was demoted and McKeon was recalled to the Major League roster. He was demoted again on July 16. All said, he pitched 21 innings in with the White Sox in 1987 and allowed 22 earned runs. It would be his final season at the Major League level.
On February 11, 1988, McKeon was selected as the player to be named later in a trade to the San Diego Padres for Ed Wojna. McKeon was not added to the 40-man roster but was invited to spring training. McKeon would spend the next four seasons in the farm systems of the Padres, Montreal Expos, Atlanta Braves and Baltimore Orioles. His final season in affiliated Minor League Baseball came in 1991.
After his final season in North America, McKeon signed a contract to play baseball in Italy in 1992. However, after his contract fell through, he began pitching and managing for a team in Brasschaat, Belgium instead. He continued to play for the team at least through the 1995 season, also balancing it with a job in his father's automotive services supply company in Hollywood, Florida. In 1995, he coached the Belgian representative at the European Cup.
While playing in Belgium, McKeon met a woman named Karen who he would marry.
# Vloman Kill

The Vloman Kill is an 18.5-mile-long (29.8 km) tributary to the Hudson River in Albany County, New York, in the United States. Its source is in the town of New Scotland near the village of Voorheesville, and its mouth is at the Hudson River near the hamlet of Cedar Hill, in the town of Bethlehem.
The Vloman Kill has a drainage area of approximately 30 square miles (78 km$^2$).

## Tributaries

* Phillipin Kill
* Dowers Kill
# Richard Wood (diplomat)

Richard Wood is a British diplomat, who served as the British Ambassador to Norway from 2018 to 2023.

## Early life

Richard John Wood was born on 27 August 1967 in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England. Wood is the son of John Michael Wood and Christine Barbara Wood.
Wood was educated at Lynn Grove High School and East Norfolk Sixth Form College. Wood attended Leeds Polytechnic, graduating with a BA (Hons) in European languages and institutions in 1990.

## Career

Wood joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1990. His first role was as Desk Officer for the Single Market, European Presidency, and Gibraltar.
His first foreign posting was as the Second Secretary for internal politics in Cape Town and Pretoria. During his first posting Wood was outed as homosexual to the FCO Security Department by colleagues, and was sent back to Britain and told to expect dismissal. He was allowed to keep his job, but said that he faced "years of resentment and fear".
After returning to the UK in 1998, he was press officer for Africa in the FCO news department two years, head of a European Union team for two years, then was posted to the UK mission in New York as first secretary (human rights/social development) from 2002 to 2007. He was back in Cape Town as British Consul General from 2007 to 2011, then briefly served in Basra, Iraq before he returned to the FCO in 2012. An appointment to Washington DC as Counsellor (foreign and security policy) was ended in 2015, when he became head of the FCO Northern and Central Europe Department. He was appointed Ambassador to Norway in August 2018.

### Ambassador to Norway

Wood was appointed the British Ambassador to Norway on 23 August 2018.

## Personal life

Wood married his husband Xavier Piot in 2008. They have a dog called Hudson. Wood speaks fluent Norwegian.
Diplomatic posts :
| Preceded bySarah Gillett | British Ambassador to Norway 2018–2023 | Succeeded byJan Thompson |
# Wading River (Massachusetts)

The Wading River is a 13.1-mile-long (21.1 km) river in southeastern Massachusetts in the United States. It rises from Lake Miramichi in the town of Foxborough and flows southeast through Mansfield into the town of Norton, where it turns east, flows through Barrowsville Pond, and continues to its confluence with the Rumford River, forming the Three Mile River. The river is part of the Taunton River watershed.
# Waiska River

The Waiska River is a 15.2-mile-long (24.5 km) river on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. It flows through Superior Township in Chippewa County, ending at Waiska Bay on the St. Marys River, near the eastern end of Lake Superior. The origin of its name came from the first son of Waubojeeg, an Anishinaabe chief of Chequamegon Bay, in western Lake Superior of what is now Wisconsin. Waishke came to St. Mary's area after his half sister Oshauguscadaywayquay married fur trader John Johnston circa 1793. He became chief of the Anishinaabeg of this area.
# Warm Springs River

The Warm Springs River is a tributary of the Deschutes River in north-central Oregon in the United States. It flows generally southeast along the east side of the Cascade Range. The watershed is approximately between Mount Jefferson and Timothy Lake, and the northwestern and southwestern boundaries of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation coincide with the watershed. The headwaters are less than 1⁄4 mile (0.40 km) from the Wasco County–Clackamas County boundary (which follows the Cascade crest). The river flows generally eastward, with occasional diagonals southeast or northeast. It joins the Deschutes River at river mile 83.7 (134.7 km upstream from the mouth of the Deschutes).
Named tributaries of the river from source to mouth are Dry and Bunchgrass creeks followed by the South Fork Warm Springs River. Then come Badger, Mill, and Beaver creeks.
# Washita River

The Washita River (/ˈwɑːʃɪtɑː/) is a river in the U.S. states of Texas and Oklahoma. The river is 295 miles (475 km) long and terminates at its confluence with the Red River, which is now part of Lake Texoma (33°55′N 96°35′W﻿ / ﻿33.917°N 96.583°W﻿ / 33.917; -96.583) on the Texas–Oklahoma border.

## Geography

The Washita River forms in eastern Roberts County, Texas (35°38′N 100°36′W﻿ / ﻿35.633°N 100.600°W﻿ / 35.633; -100.600), near the town of Miami in the Texas Panhandle. The river crosses Hemphill County, Texas and enters Oklahoma in Roger Mills County. It cuts through the Oklahoma counties of Roger Mills, Custer, Washita, Caddo, Grady, Garvin, Murray, Carter, and Johnston before emptying into Lake Texoma, which is the modern border between Bryan County and Marshall County.
The river bisects the heart of the Anadarko Basin, the fifth-largest natural gas formation area in the United States. When the river reaches the Arbuckle Mountains, it drops 30 feet per mile (5.7 m/km) as it cuts through Big Canyon, a limestone gorge 300 feet (91 m) deep.
The Washita's river bed is made up of unstable mud and sand, and its banks are composed of steeply incised and erosive red earth. This makes it one of the most silt-laden streams in North America.

### Tributaries

Along its path, the Foss Dam impounds the Washita River in Custer County to create the Foss Reservoir. Several reservoirs in the Washita River valley hold the waters of small tributaries, including Fort Cobb Lake, Lake Chickasha, and Arbuckle Reservoir.

## History

French explorers encountered the Washita River in the early 18th century while traveling upstream on the Red River and thought it was the same stream described by friendly Choctaw tribesmen as the Ouachita River. They soon found that it appeared very different from descriptions of the Ouachita, and named it the Faux Ouachita (False Ouachita). The name was later referred to by English-speaking American settlers as False Washita. After the American Civil War, Americans referred to the river as the Washita.
In 1842, General and future President Zachary Taylor established Fort Washita near the lower end of the river to protect resettled citizens of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, who had been removed from the Southeastern United States, from the Plains Indians inhabiting the area. The fort was about 19 miles (31 km) above the confluence of the Washita and Red rivers.
During the later Indian Wars, the Battle of Washita River (also known as the Washita River Massacre) occurred at dawn on November 27, 1868. Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer’s 7th U.S. Cavalry attacked Black Kettle’s Cheyenne village on the Washita River near present-day Cheyenne, Oklahoma, killing many inhabitants.
Capt. Wyllys Lyman's wagon train was besieged by Indians near the Washita in Hemphill County on September 9–14, 1874.
# Waterloo Creek (Upper Iowa River tributary)

Waterloo Creek is a 9.7-mile-long (15.6 km) tributary of the Upper Iowa River, with a watershed covering 48.3 square miles (125 km$^2$). It rises as Bee Creek in Houston County, Minnesota, southwest of the city of Spring Grove, flowing generally in a southeasterly direction, crossing into Waterloo Township in Allamakee County, Iowa, where it becomes Waterloo Creek and takes a generally north–south route to its confluence with Bear Creek, just before entering the Upper Iowa River. Iowa Highway 76 parallels the stream until crossing the river. The town of Dorchester, Iowa is the only settlement alongside it.
The creek is rated as one of the best trout fishing streams in Iowa. In recent years, substantial restoration work on the creek has been accomplished, removing invasive non-native planting and restoring the original meanderings of spring-fed brooks.
# Watts Branch (Potomac River tributary)

Watts Branch is a tributary stream of the Potomac River in Montgomery County, Maryland.

## Course

The headwaters of the stream originate in the city of Rockville, and the branch flows southwest for 11.2 miles (18.0 km), under the C&O Canal near Swain's Lock, to the Potomac River, which drains to the Chesapeake Bay. The watershed area is about 22 square miles (57 km$^2$).$^{:p.1–3}$
Portions of Watts Branch flow through a stream valley park, a mostly undeveloped natural area which acts as a riparian buffer zone to help minimize stream bank erosion and filter pollutants from stormwater runoff.

## Development impacts on water quality

While some parts of the Watts Branch watershed are parkland or remain forested, the area is adjacent to Rockville town center and the Interstate 270 corridor. This community has experienced extensive residential and commercial development over the past several decades. Population in the Rockville city limits (of which only a portion is in the Watts Branch watershed) more than doubled between 1960 and 2010, from approximately 26,000 to 61,000. These development trends have led to degraded water quality due to stormwater pollution in some portions of the Watts Branch mainstem and tributaries. The stream and watershed have been the subject of extensive studies and planning by Montgomery County and the City of Rockville. A number of stream restoration projects have been undertaken by both governments.
In order to preserve water quality in a partially developed area, the county imposed some restrictions on development (i.e. designation of a "Special Protection Area") in part of the Piney Branch sub-watershed in 1994. Following intensive land development after 1998, county scientists found that the special restrictions had only a limited effect, and water quality declined where development had occurred.

## Tributaries of Watts Branch

Major tributaries of Watts Branch include:
* Research Boulevard Tributary
* Valley Drive Tributary
* Cold Spring Tributary
* Fallsreach Tributary
* Potomac Green Tributary
* Kilgour Branch
* Potomac View Branch
* Piney Branch
* Piney Glen Tributary
* Greenbriar Branch
* Sandy Branch
# 1970 Comoros by-election

A by-election to the French National Assembly was held in the Comoros on 12 July 1970, following the resignation of Saïd Ibrahim Ben Ali after he became Prime Minister of the Comoros. The result was a victory for Mohamed Dahalani of the List for the Fifth Republic.

## Results

| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Mohamed Dahalani | List for the Fifth Republic | 43,902 | 53.24 |
| | Ali Mroudjaé | Democratic Rally of the Comorian People | 38,560 | 46.76 |
| Total | Total | Total | 82,462 | 100.00 |
| Source: Sternberger et al. |||||
# Rick Guard

Rick Guard is an English singer-songwriter who released his debut album, Hands of a Giant, in 2002.

## Career

Guard's first single gained top twenty positions in eleven countries (in most of which he toured) and was in the top ten downloaded ringtones of that year. Amongst Guard and Rice's writing credits are hits for opera star Russell Watson, Canadian Ashley MacIssac, and opera singer, Jon Christos. Guard and Rice (Guard sang) wrote the title soundtrack to the movie The Truth About Love, starring Dougray Scott, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jimi Mistry. The pair have also written popular theme music for English, Australian and Polish TV shows. They also have a song included on a best-selling Sony PlayStation game.

## Appearances

Guard's gigging career so far includes performances in England for Elizabeth II, The Princess Royal, OK Magazine, Manchester United FC, Manchester City FC, the V2 summer festival, Children In Need with the BBC Orchestra, The Royal Festival Hall, Sky One TV, Granada TV, The Box video channel, MTV, Radio 2, Cardiff Red Dragon festival, Feel the Noise Festival Liverpool and other live public, corporate and private events and Manchester 235. Guard has received radio play on the majority of the independent, BBC and national radio stations, and particularly extensive airplay in Europe. Guard received the prestigious Belgian Zommerhit award. At the end of 2003, Guard's first single "Stop it I Like It" was in the top 75 of highest radio played records in the world chart. Guard has also gigged live events and TV in South Africa, France, Austria, Belgium, Poland, Egypt, Spain, Holland and Ireland working with artists such as Ronan Keating, Russell Watson, and Lionel Richie. He has played to TV audiences of four million and stadiums of up to 65,000 people.

## Discography
### Albums

List of albums, with selected details :
| Title | Details |
| Hands of a Giant | Released: 2002 Format: CD Label: Decca (473 200–2) |

### Charting singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions :
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Album |
| Title | Year | AUS | FIN | FRA | SPA | Album |
| "Stop It (I Like It!)" | 2002 | 55 | 18 | 38 | 5 | Hands of a Giant |