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# The Best American Short Stories 1996

The Best American Short Stories 1996, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor John Edgar Wideman.

## Short stories included

| Author | Story | Source |
| Alice Adams | "Complicities" | Michigan Quarterly Review |
| Rick Bass | "Fires" | Big Sky Journal |
| Jason Brown | "Driving the Heart" | Mississippi Review |
| Robert Olen Butler | "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot" | The New Yorker |
| Lan Samantha Chang | "The Eve of the Spirit Festival" | Prairie Schooner |
| Dan Chaon | "Fitting Ends" | TriQuarterly |
| Peter Ho Davies | "The Silver Screen" | Harvard Review |
| Junot Díaz | "Ysrael" | Story |
| Stephen Dixon | "Sleep" | Harpers Magazine |
| Stuart Dybek | "Paper Lantern" | The New Yorker |
| Deborah Galyan | "The Incredible Appearing Man" | Missouri Review |
| Mary Gordon | "Intertextuality" | The Recorder |
| David Huddle | "Past My Future" | Story |
| Anna Keesey | "Bright Winter" | Grand Street |
| Jamaica Kincaid | "In Roseau" | The New Yorker |
| William Henry Lewis | "Shades" | Ploughshares |
| William Lychack | "A Stand of Fables" | Quarterly West |
| Joyce Carol Oates | "Ghost Girls" | American Short Fiction |
| Angela Patrinos | "Sculpture I" | The New Yorker |
| Susan Perabo | "Some Say the Word" | TriQuarterly |
| Lynn Sharon Schwartz | "The Trip to Halawa Valley" | Shenandoah |
| Akhil Sharma | "If You Sing Like That for Me" | The Atlantic Monthly |
| Jean Thompson | "All Shall Love Me and Despair" | Mid-American Review |
| Melanie Rae Thon | "Xmas, Jamaica Plain" | Ontario Review |
# Heletz railway

The Heletz Railway (Hebrew: מסילת חלץ, Mesilat Heletz) is a 20 km railway in southern Israel which connects the Railway to Beersheba from a point just south of Kiryat Gat to the Lod–Ashkelon railway near moshav Mavki'im. The track passes close to moshav Heletz, from which it derives its name.

## History

The railway was constructed by Israel Railways in the early 1980s, to provide a shortcut for freight trains from southern Israel headed for the Port of Ashdod. Previously, such trains had to be routed through the Lod Railway Station in central Israel. The railway was once used for some limited passenger service, though today it is used by passenger trains only on an emergency basis—in instances when the Lod – Kiryat Gat section of the Railway to Beersheba is blocked.

## Development

The Ashkelon-Beersheba railway which opened in 2015 to the south of the Heletz railway provides an alternate rail connection between the Railway to Beersheba and the Lod-Ashkelon railway.
Israel Railways has proposed a plan to extend the Heletz railway from Kiryat Gat to Tarqumiyah in the future as a means of providing a rail connection between the Gaza Strip and the southern West Bank.
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# Yangon–Mandalay Railway

Yangon–Mandalay Railway (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်-မန္တလေး ရထားလမ်း) is a railway line in Myanmar. Operated by Myanma Railways, it is the second railway line in Myanmar after the opening of the Irrawaddy Valley State Railway.

## History

In 1881, the government of Lower Myanmar decided to continue construction of the Yangon-Taungoo railway even after the British built the Yangon-Pyay railway. Between Yangon and Nyaunglebin was opened on February 27, 1884, and between Nyaunglebin - Taungoo was opened on July 1, 1885. After the occupation of Upper Burma by the British in 1885, the following sections of this line was extended to Mandalay in 1889.
In 1896, The Sittang Valley State Railway was merged with the Burma Railway Company.
| Segment | length (km) | Date opened |
| Yangon - Bago | 74.8 | February 27, 1884 |
| Bago - Nyaunglebin | 74.5 | August 10, 1884 |
| Nyaunglebin - Taungoo | 117.9 | July 1, 1885 |
| Taungoo - Pyinmana | 94.9 | October 1, 1888 |
| Pyinmana - Mandalay | 258.3 | March 10, 1889 |

## Stations

* Yangon Central railway station
* Naypyidaw Central railway station
* Mandalay Central railway station
# Ohel Leah Synagogue

The Ohel Leah Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת אהל לאה, romanized: Beit Ha-Knesset Ohel Leah) is a Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at the junction of Robinson Road and Castle Road, in the Mid Levels on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

## Overview

Together with the adjacent Jewish Recreation Club and the Jewish Community Centre, the synagogue and associated facilities have formed the center of Jewish social and religious life in Hong Kong since its establishment in 1902. Originally the community was mostly Baghdadi Sephardic Jews and the synagogue was under the superintendence of the Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London. The congregation is now fully independent and has members from across the Jewish diaspora.
Most of Hong Kong's Jews live only a short distance away from the synagogue. An example of British Colonial Edwardian architecture, the two-storied, whitewashed, multi-turreted Synagogue nestles amid the soaring high-rises of steel and glass perched on the Mid-Levels of Hong Kong Island. The synagogue was designed by the architects Leigh & Orange and was erected in 1901–1902. In 1998, the synagogue underwent a US$6 million restoration which returned its interiors and exteriors to their original state.
The name Ohel Leah commemorates Leah Sassoon, the mother of the Sassoon brothers Jacob, Edward, and Meyer who donated the land for building the Synagogue. The Sassoons were among the earliest Sephardic merchants from India to settle in Hong Kong during the mid to late 19th century.
Ohel Leah is a Modern Orthodox congregation and received its first officially appointed rabbi in 1961. Three other Jewish congregations have also emerged more recently in Hong Kong: the Sephardic, which is dominated by Israeli expatriates; the Chabad Lubavitch; and the United Jewish Congregation, which is aligned with the more liberal Reform and Conservative movements. Many worshippers, however, hold concurrent memberships in several congregations.

## Conservation

The historic synagogue was listed as a Grade I historic building in July 1987. By December 1987, the listing was voluntarily removed as there was talk of demolishing the building. In order to provide the building with immediate protection against demolition, the Antiquities Authority of the Hong Kong Government declared it a proposed monument. Ohel Leah Synagogue was consequently saved based on a preservation arrangement agreed between Government and the owner. It was relisted as a Grade I historic building in 1990. Its renovation in 1998 obtained the Outstanding Project Award of the 2000 UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation.

## Gallery

* Synagogue from the top
* Interior
# Krusza Podlotowa

Krusza Podlotowa is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Inowrocław, within Inowrocław County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.
# Britons in Japan

Britons in Japan make up the 19th largest foreign resident communities in Japan. The United Kingdom is the third largest source of foreign residents outside Asia, following Brazil and the United States.

## Overview

As of December 2023, according to data released by the Ministry of Justice Immigration Bureau, there were 19,909 people from the United Kingdom. This number does not include those naturalised as Japanese citizerns, those staying as government officials or diplomats, or short-term residents.
The prefectures with the highest concentration of British nationals were Tokyo (7,266), Kanagawa (1,791), Osaka (1,227), and Hokkaido (1,113). Permanent residents comprised 6,880 of the population, followed by those on professional visas (3,350) and those staying as spouses of Japanese nationals (3,037).

### British Hongkongers

Since Hong Kong was once a British colony, after its return to China, residents have retained British National (Overseas) passports (abbreviated as BN(O)), allowing them to enter and stay in Japan as British Subject. Statistically, they are counted as British nationals, with no distinction made between them or other British subject.

## Professional associations

The British Chamber of Commerce in Japan is an independent non-profit organisation that promotes trade and networking opportunities for member firms and business professionals living and working in Japan.

## Education

The British School in Tokyo provides an English language based educational curriculum for students of over 50 different nationalities. The school serves a number of children of British heritage living in the city.

## Notable people

* William Adams, the first European to become a samurai, served Ieyasu Tokugawa in the 17th century.
* Venetia Stanley-Smith, a herbalist, became famous for an NHK series about her life in rural Kyoto.
* Peter Barakan, broadcaster and DJ.
* Thomas Baty, a legal scholar and one of the first openly non-binary people in the country.
* Rita Taketsuru, a Scottish woman who co-founded Nikka Whisky with her husband Masataka.
* Josiah Conder, an architect who was commissioned for many government buildings and was the first educator of Western architecture in Japan.
* Iso Mutsu, a writer who married Earl Hirokichi Mutsu and introduced Kamakura, where she lived, to the world.
* Pico Iyer, an essayist and writer based in Nara since 1992.
* Clive William Nicole, a Welsh writer and environmentalist who naturalised in 1995.
* George Edward Gauntlett, the developer of one of the earliest Japanese shorthand methods.
* Sky Brown, a professional skateboarder who won the bronze medal in the 2020 Olympics and is the youngest British summer Olympian ever.
# Shooting at the 2023 Pan American Games – Men's trap

The men's trap competition of the shooting events at the 2023 Pan American Games was held from October 26 to 27 at Polígono de Tiro de Pudahuel in Santiago, Chile.

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| October 26, 2023 | 09:30 | Qualification - Day 1 |
| October 27, 2023 | 09:30 | Qualification - Day 2 |
| October 27, 2023 | 14:30 | Final |

## Results
### Qualification round

The best six scores advance to the final.
| Rank | Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Total | Notes |
| 1 | Jean Pierre Brol | Independent Athletes Team | 24 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 24 | 121 | Q, CB:3 |
| 2 | Jorge Orozco | Mexico | 24 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 118 | Q |
| 3 | Hebert Brol | Independent Athletes Team | 24 | 25 | 22 | 22 | 24 | 117 | Q, CR:34 |
| 4 | Alessandro de Souza Ferreira | Peru | 24 | 24 | 21 | 23 | 24 | 116 | Q, CB:25 |
| 5 | Derrick Mein | United States | 24 | 25 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 116 | Q, CB:48 |
| 6 | Leonel Martínez | Venezuela | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 115 | Q, CB:10 |
| 7 | Jaison Santin | Brazil | 23 | 22 | 21 | 24 | 24 | 114 | |
| 8 | William Hinton | United States | 21 | 22 | 25 | 22 | 24 | 114 | CB:4 |
| 9 | Joaquin Cisneros | Argentina | 21 | 24 | 24 | 23 | 21 | 113 | |
| 10 | Hussein Kluber | Brazil | 23 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 113 | CB:12 |
| 11 | Franco Gonzalez | Uruguay | 20 | 22 | 24 | 21 | 25 | 112 |
| 12 | Claudio Vergara | Chile | 23 | 23 | 19 | 23 | 24 | 112 | CB:4 |
| 13 | Esteban Caro | Colombia | 22 | 23 | 23 | 22 | 22 | 112 | CB:1 |
| 14 | Mario Soares | Venezuela | 21 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 112 | CB:11 |
| 15 | Asier Cilloniz | Peru | 19 | 22 | 19 | 24 | 25 | 109 | |
| 16 | Eduardo Lorenzo | Dominican Republic | 21 | 21 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 109 | |
| 17 | Justin St. John | Barbados | 21 | 22 | 24 | 21 | 21 | 109 | CB:6 |
| 18 | Fernando Vidal | Argentina | 20 | 20 | 23 | 21 | 24 | 108 | CB:7 |
| 19 | Danilo Caro | Colombia | 25 | 21 | 22 | 18 | 21 | 107 | |
| 20 | Domingo Nicolás Lorenzo | Dominican Republic | 20 | 21 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 105 | |
| 21 | Cristóbal Valenzuela | Chile | 23 | 24 | 18 | 20 | 19 | 104 | CB:17 |
| 22 | Luis Orranti | Mexico | 21 | 22 | 20 | 19 | 21 | 103 | CB:7 |
| 23 | Manuel García | Panama | 19 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 24 | 102 | |
| 24 | Colin Grover | Canada | 21 | 20 | 21 | 17 | 23 | 102 | |
| 25 | César Menacho | Bolivia | 20 | 15 | 22 | 22 | 18 | 97 | |
| 26 | Richard Greenidge | Barbados | 22 | 23 | 13 | 17 | 18 | 93 | CB:14 |
| 27 | Eduardo Taylor | Panama | 20 | 20 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 93 | CB:1 |

### Final

The results were as follows:
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Total | Notes |
| | Jean Pierre Brol | Independent Athletes Team | 43 | PR |
| | Leonel Martínez | Venezuela | 42 | |
| | Hebert Brol | Independent Athletes Team | 30 | |
| 4 | Alessandro de Souza Ferreira | Peru | 28 | |
| 5 | Derrick Mein | United States | 22 | |
| 6 | Jorge Orozco | Mexico | 16 | |
# Tong Akeen Ngor

Tong Akeen Ngor is a South Sudanese governor of the state of Northern Bahr el Ghazal. He was appointed by President Kiir in February 2020 as one of revitalized-peace agreement's governors.

## Activist imprisonment

A court in Aweil sentenced an activist, Samuel Garang Dut, to eight months in prison for making false statements against Northern Bahr el Ghazal State governor.
Garang Mangok, the presiding judge, found Samuel Garang Dut guilty of libel and slander.
He was also ordered to pay a fine of two million South Sudanese Pounds to Tong Aken.
Garang was ordered to court by Governor Tong after the activist took pictures of a modern building constructed in Juba and claimed it belonged to Governor Aken.
# Tullygerravra

Tullygerravra (from Irish Tulaigh Dhoire Bhreith 'hill of the oak-wood of the birth', IPA:[ˈt̪ˠʊliːˈɣɛɾʲəvʲɾʲɛ]) is a townland in the area of Belcoo, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It used to be in the area of Boho and remains a part of the parish of Botha.
This townland is mentioned as one of the three townlands including Agho and Eoss in the parish of Botha which were removed from the barony of Magheraboy around the 1890s.
# Bulle–Broc railway line

The Bulle–Broc railway line is a railway line in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. It runs 5.4 kilometres (3.4 mi) from Bulle to Broc-Chocolaterie. It was built in 1912 by the Chemins de fer électriques de la Gruyère (CEG) as a branch from the Palézieux–Bulle–Montbovon railway line. Both lines were 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge. Transports publics Fribourgeois (TPF) closed the line from 2021–2023 for rebuilding as a standard gauge line.

## History

The Chemins de fer électriques de la Gruyère constructed the branch line in 1912, with the section from Bulle to Les Marches opening on 29 January and from Les Marches to Broc on 24 June. In 1942, the CEG merged with two other companies to form the Chemins de fer fribourgeois Gruyère–Fribourg–Morat (GFM). The GFM, in turn, became the Transports publics Fribourgeois (TPF) in 2000.
Two stations were renamed with the 2017 timetable change: La Tour-Village became La Tour-de-Trême while Epagny became La Tour-de-Trême Parqueterie. The station formerly known as La Tour-de-Trême on the Palézieux–Bulle–Montbovon line became La Tour-de-Trême Ronclina.
TPF closed the line in April 2021 to permit a complete rebuilding and conversion to standard gauge. The change of gauge allowed through operation of trains to and from Romont FR. In addition, the stations of La Tour-de-Trême, Broc-Village, and Broc-Fabrique were rebuilt for better handicapped access. Two other stations, La Tour-de-Trême Parqueterie and Les Marches, were closed. The line reopened on 24 August 2023. Broc-Fabrique was renamed Broc-Chocolaterie in December 2023 to emphasize the adjacent Cailler chocolate factory.
# Funiculaire Ecluse–Plan

Funiculaire Ecluse - Plan is a funicular railway in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The line leads from Ecluse at 442 m to Plan at 556 m, the neighborhood of the city on Le Plan (595 m). The funicular with two cars has a single track with a passing loop. The line of 399 m in length has a difference of elevation of 111 m. Intermediate stations are Boine (520 m) and Côte. The lower part and the passing loop are in tunnels (80 m and 86 m length originally). Built in 1890, it is the oldest of the three funicular railways in the city of Neuchâtel. It was a rack railway of the Riggenbach type and it used water counterbalancing before electrification in 1907. The funicular is owned and operated by Transports publics Neuchâtelois.
# Gurten Funicular

The Gurten Funicular (German: Gurtenbahn) is a funicular railway in the southern suburbs of the Swiss federal city of Bern. The line links Wabern, in the municipality of Köniz, with the summit of the Gurten mountain (858 m), which overlooks the city of Bern.
Wabern can be reached from the city centre by tram, train or car. Wabern bei Bern station, on lines S3 and S31 of the Bern S-Bahn, is adjacent to the lower station of the Gurtenbahn, as is the Gurtenbahn stop on Bern tramway route 9.
The line is owned and operated by the company Gurtenbahn Bern AG.

## History

The first concession for a line up the Gurten was granted in 1885 but never realized. A second concession was granted in 1893 and the line opened in 1899. In 1931 and 1932 the cars were overhauled and a new drive installed. In 1944 new cars were supplied and the lower station redesigned, with the upper station following in 1949. In 1966 the plant was renewed again.
In 1999, the line was completely rebuilt. All the stations were renovated, the drive was replaced, and new panorama carriages were put into operation.
In 2015, the line carried over one million passengers, the largest annual ridership up until that year. In the same year, the line made a profit of around 250,000 Swiss francs.

## Operation

The line is operated by the Gurtenbahn company. It has the following parameters:
| Feature | Value |
| Number of cars | 2 |
| Number of stops | 3 (at terminals and passing loop) |
| Configuration | Single track with passing loop |
| Track length | 1,058 metres (3,471 ft) |
| Rise | 267 metres (876 ft) |
| gradient | 34% |
| Track gauge | 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) |
| Capacity | 120 passengers per car |
| Maximum speed | 8 metres per second (26.2 ft/s) |
| Travel time | 5 minutes |
# Lugano–Cadro–Dino railway

The Lugano–Cadro–Dino railway (Italian: Ferrovia Lugano–Cadro–Dino; LCD) was a Swiss metre gauge suburban railway that linked the towns of Lugano, Cadro and Dino, in the canton of Ticino.
The line was opened in 1911. It was 7.8 kilometres (4.8 mi) long, and was electrified at 1000 V DC using overhead lines. It commenced from a terminus in Piazza Manzoni on the Lake Lugano waterfront, had 16 stops, a maximum gradient of 4% and a minimum radius of 40 metres (130 ft). The first 2 kilometres (1.2 mi), as far as the line's depot at Lugano La Santa, was laid in the street, but from there to Dino the line occupied its own right of way.
In addition to the suburban railway service, the LCD also operated an urban tramway service over its tracks between Piazza Manzoni and La Santa. This tram service was independent of the urban tram system operated by the Azienda Comunale del Traffico (ACT), although the two systems' tracks did cross each other near Piazza Manzoni. In 1950, three tram cars of the Mendrisio tramway were acquired by the LCD, and used on the tram service, with cars running every 15 minutes. This service lasted until 1964, when it was replaced by an ACT bus service. However suburban trains, from Piazza Manzoni to Dino, continued to use the street track.
The line was cut back from Piazza Manzoni to Piazza Indipendenza in 1967, and then finally closed in 1970. The trains were replaced by a regional bus service, which subsequently merged with that of the Lugano–Tesserete railway, and today operates as the Autolinee Regionali Luganesi.
Little remains of the street track between Piazza Manzoni and La Santa, but the depot at the latter location is still in use by the ARL as a bus garage. From here it is possible to trace the line, which was on its own right of way, and included tunnels and bridges, as far as Dino. The station building at Dino has been restored and now houses a grocery store.
An original open-sided trailer car of the LCD has been restored and is preserved on the Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway. One of the cars acquired from the Mendrisio tramway has since been restored to its original state and is now on display at the Hotel Coronado in Mendrisio.
# Monthey–Champéry–Morgins railway

The Monthey–Champéry–Morgins railway (French: Chemin de fer Monthey–Champéry–Morgins, MCM) was a metre gauge railway operating in the Chablais region of Switzerland.
The concession to build the line was awarded on 22 June 1899 but the work proceeded slowly. It was the original intention to complete the work at the same time as the Chemin de fer Aigle-Ollon-Monthey, with which it made an end-on junction, the two lines opening together in April 1907. The line eventually opened to passenger traffic on 30 January 1908. There was also to be a branch line, leaving the main line at Val d'Illiez, to Morgins. Although that line was never built due to poor economic expectations, the village remained in the company title until amalgamation.
Nowadays the line is part of a larger, regional system operated, along with local bus services, by the Transports Publics du Chablais.
At least one railcar was preserved, a BCFeh 4/4 no.6. It runs at the Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway.
# Palézieux–Bulle–Montbovon railway line

The Palézieux–Bulle–Montbovon railway line is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge railway line in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. It runs 43.2 kilometres (26.8 mi) from Palézieux to Montbovon. The line is owned and operated by Transports publics Fribourgeois (TPF).

## History

The first section between Palézieux and Châtel-St-Denis opened on 29 April 1901. It was built by the Chemin de fer Châtel-St-Denis–Palézieux (CP). The Chemins de fer électriques de la Gruyère (CEG) built another line east from Châtel-St-Denis to Vuadens, opening on 23 July 1903. At the same time, the CEG opened a line north from Montbovon to La Tour-de-Trême. The CEG closed the gap in 1904, completing sections between Vaudens and Bulle on 14 July and Bulle and La Tour-de-Trême on 21 September. The CEG acquired the CP on 20 December 1907.
In 1942, the CEG merged with two other companies to form the Chemins de fer fribourgeois Gruyère–Fribourg–Morat (GFM). The GFM, in turn, became the Transports publics Fribourgeois (TPF) in 2000.

## Route

The line begins in Palézieux, where it terminates across the platform from the standard gauge Lausanne–Bern and Palézieux–Lyss lines of Swiss Federal Railways. From there the line runs east to Châtel-Saint-Denis, where there was an interchange with the St-Légier–Châtel-St-Denis railway line from 1904–1969, when it was abandoned. The line then turns northeast, skirting the Swiss Prealps, to Bulle. At Bulle it interchanges with two other TPF lines: the standard gauge Bulle–Romont railway line, and the standard gauge Bulle–Broc railway line, another former CEG branch that was rebuilt in 2021–2023. From Bulle, the line turns south, and continues to Montbovon, where it meets the Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line of the Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway.