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# Snoopy's Christmas

"Snoopy's Christmas" is a song by The Royal Guardsmen which appears on the album Snoopy and His Friends (1967).

## Overview

A followup to their earlier hit "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron", the song is a fictional account of how Snoopy was directed to go out and fight the Red Baron on a bitterly cold Christmas Eve. The Baron has Snoopy at his mercy after a long dogfight, but instead of shooting him down he forces Snoopy to land and offers Snoopy a chivalrous holiday toast. Afterward, Snoopy and the Red Baron fly their separate ways, "each knowing they'd meet on some other day".
The release begins with a chorus singing "O Tannenbaum" ("O Christmas Tree"). The middle of the song is bridged by chimes ringing out a phrase from "Hark the Herald Angels Sing". The chimes can also can be heard during the fade-out at the end of the song. The album version of the song has a simulated radio news report of failed efforts at a Christmas truce, leading to Snoopy being sent out to hunt his sworn foe.
The song references the 1914 "Christmas truce" of World War I which was initiated not by German and British commanders, but by the soldiers themselves. The length of the cease-fire varied by location, and was reported to have been as brief as Christmas Day or as long as the week between Christmas and New Year's Day. Trench-bound combatants exchanged small gifts across the lines, with Germans giving beer to the British, who sent tobacco and tinned meat back in return. No Man's Land was cleared of dead bodies, trenches were repaired and drained, and troops from both sides shared pictures of their families and, in some places, used No Man's Land for friendly games of football. The song even has the initiator correct as it was generally the German soldiers who called over to the British and initiated the truce and, in the song, it is the Red Baron—a German WWI hero—who extends the hand of Christmas friendship to Snoopy.

## Reception

"Snoopy's Christmas" reached the No. 1 position in the New Zealand and Australia singles charts in 1967, and remains a popular Christmas song in those countries. The song was the fastest-selling single at the time it was originally released and is estimated to be the biggest selling overseas single sold in New Zealand in the 20th century. The song frequently reenters the New Zealand singles chart, charting in December 1987, 1988, 1989, and 2013. "Snoopy's Christmas" was also voted "the worst Christmas song of all time" by readers of the New Zealand Herald in 2007. Bruce Ward, the EMI executive who was in his first year at EMI when he chose to release the song as a single, puts its success down to "New Zealand's strange taste in music".
In Canada, the song reached No. 39, January 6, 1968.
# Director General of Education (Malaysia)

The current Malaysian Director General of Education is Azman Adnan, since 20 February 2024.

## List of Director General of Education

The following is a list of former and current Director General of Education.
| No. | Director General of Education | Director General of Education | Term of office | Term of office |
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office |
| 1 | | Joseph Norman Davies (Unknown) | 1959 | 1959 |
| 2 | | D.H. Christie (Unknown) | 1960 | 1960 |
| 3 | | Aminuddin Baki (1926–1965) | 1961 | 1965 |
| 4 | | Hamdan Sheikh Tahir (1921–2005) | 1966 | 1976 |
| 5 | | Murad Mohamed Noor (1930–2008) | 1976 | 1985 |
| 6 | | Abdul Rahman Arshad (1936–2020) | 1985 | 1991 |
| 7 | | Asiah Abu Samah (b. 1937) | 1991 | 1993 |
| 8 | | Wan Mohd Zahid Mohd Noordin (1940–2022) | 1993 | 1997 |
| 9 | | Matnor Daim (b. Unknown) | April 1997 | April 1998 |
| 10 | | Abdul Shukor Abdullah (1944–2011) | April 1998 | February 2001 |
| 11 | | Abdul Rafie Mahat (1946–2007) | February 2001 | January 2005 |
| 12 | | Ahmad Sipon (b. 1951) | February 2005 | July 2007 |
| 13 | | Alimuddin Mat Dom (b. Unknown) | 16 July 2007 | 6 November 2010 |
| 14 | | Abdul Ghafar Mahmud (b. 1953) | 8 November 2010 | 6 December 2013 |
| 15 | | Khair Mohamad Yusof (b. 1956) | 8 December 2013 | 17 October 2017 |
| 16 | | Amin Senin (b. Unknown) | 19 October 2017 | 21 December 2019 |
| 17 | | Habibah Abdul Rahim (b. Unknown) | 10 January 2020 | 5 April 2021 |
| 18 | | Nor Zamani Abdol Hamid (b. Unknown) | 22 June 2021 | 29 July 2022 |
| 19 | | Pkharuddin Ghazali (b. 1963) | 23 September 2022 | 6 September 2023 |
| 20 | | Azman Adnan (b. 1966) | 20 February 2024 | Incumbent |
# KEWS

KEWS (104.7 FM) was a radio station licensed to Sac City, Iowa, United States. The station was owned by Radioactive, LLC.

## History

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a construction permit for the station on March 9, 2005. The station was assigned the call sign WJLL on February 15, 2008, and, on March 10, 2008, changed its call sign to KJLN. The station was granted its license to cover on June 24, 2008, but later went silent. On January 15, 2012, the station changed its call sign to KEWS.
Radioactive surrendered KEWS' license to the FCC on April 20, 2015; the FCC cancelled the license the next day.
# Subrahmanya Road railway station

Subrahmanya Road is a railway station on Mangalore–Hassan–Mysore line. It is located in Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka state, India. The station consists of three platforms, which are not well sheltered.The station is located at Nettana. The railway line(track) from Hassan to Mangaluru was converted from Metre gauge to Broad gauge by creation of joint venture company HMRDC between Government of Karnataka and Ministry of Railways to finance the gauge conversion. Few amenities have been upgraded in recent past

## Location

Subrahmanya Road railway station at Nettana serves Subramanya village in Dakshina Kannada district where Kukke Subramanya Temple is located at distance of twelve kilometre from railroad station. It belongs to Mysore railway division, part of South Western Railway zone of Indian Railways.Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) operates few buses from this railway station at Nettana to Kukke Subramanya.

## Services

There are several trains to Mysore, Kannur,Karwar, Bengaluru, Vijayapura, Yesvantpur and Mangaluru that stop at Subrahmanya Road station:
| Number | Train Name |
| 07377 / 07378 | Vijayapura–Mangaluru Express Special |
| 16511 / 16512 | KSR Bengaluru–Kannur Express (via Kunigal) |
| 16515 / 16516 | Yesvantpur–Karwar Express |
| 16575 / 16576 | Gomteshwara Express (Yesvantpur–Mangaluru Junction) |
| 16539/16540 | Yesvantpur-Mangaluru Junction Weekly Express |
| 16585 / 16586 | KSR Bengaluru–Mangaluru Central Express(via Mysuru) |
| 56646 / 56647 | Subrahmanya Road–Mangaluru Central Passenger (unreserved) |
| 16595/16596 | Panchaganga Express(KSR Bengaluru-Karwar) |
# Kavi sammelan

Kavi Sammelan (Hindi: कवि सम्मेलन) is a gathering of poets in the Hindi Belt of northern India. The participants recite their poetry to each other and have a general discussion on literary issues. This may take place among the poets but is mostly done before an audience. Kavi sammelan specifically dedicated to comedy (Hāsya) and satire ("Vyangya") are known as Hasya Kavi Sammelan.

## History

The first grand kavi sammelan was organized in the year 1920, which included many poets and large audiences. After that, kavi sammelan became a large part of Indian culture. The Mushaira of Urdu poetry and the Hindi Kavi Sammelan are now often combined, and 'Mushaira-cum-Kavi Sammelan' is organised throughout the Hindustani speaking world.
In India, the period from Indian independence in 1947 to the early 1980s was a golden phase for kavi sammelan. From the mid-1980s up to the late 1990s, the Indian population, and especially its youth, was suffering from issues such as unemployment. This took its toll on kavi sammelan, as did newer modes of entertainment such as television and the internet, as well as the quantity of Indian cinema releases. Kavi sammelans had started losing their standing in Indian culture, both in terms of quantity and quality.
In the era before economic liberalization(1991), kavi sammelans were a popular part of everyday life. They were often broadcast on the state-owned Doordarshan TV network. Post-liberalization, with increasing westernization and proliferation of electronic media, the frequency of such gatherings has reduced. One good trend that has been observed in Kavi-Sammelan is that, it has taken its roots in other countries too. With its increasing frequency across the globe. Moreover, now many Indian television channels giving airtime to programmes based on Hindi poetry recitations like Wah! Wah! Kya Baat Hai!, Kavi-Sammelan have got a fresh breath of life with increased audience base and liking.

## Indian and International Organizers

Hindi Kavi sammelans are organized across the globe. The US, Dubai, Muscat, Singapore, UK are the places that organize highest number of kavi sammelans after India. In most of the kavi sammelans organized in these countries, the poets are generally invited from India.

## List of Famous Kavi Sammelan Poets

* Mayank Mishra
* Kamlesh Rajhans
* Rajkavi Inderjeet Singh Tulsi
* Pankaj Prasun
* Arun Gemini
* Ashok Chakradhar
* Surendar Sharma
* Chirag Jain
* Devesh Mishra
* Samapt Saral
* Shambhu Shikhar
* Shailesh Lodha
# Ernie Chan

Ernesto Chan (July 27, 1940 – May 16, 2012), born and sometimes credited as Ernie Chua, was a Filipino-American comics artist, known for work published by Marvel Comics and DC Comics, including many Marvel issues of series featuring Conan the Barbarian. Chan also had a long tenure on Batman and Detective Comics. Other than his work on Batman, Chan primarily focused on non-superhero characters, staying mostly in the genres of horror, war, and sword and sorcery.

## Biography

Ernie Chan was born Ernie Chua due to what he called "a typographical error on my birth certificate that I had to use until I had a chance to change it to 'Chan' when I got my [U.S.] citizenship in '76." He migrated to the United States in 1970 and became a citizen in 1976. For a number of years, he worked under the name Ernie Chua but he was later credited as Ernie Chan. He studied with John Buscema and worked with him as the inker on Conan during the 1970s. He also inked the art of Buscema's brother Sal on The Incredible Hulk.
Chan entered the American comics industry in 1972 with DC Comics as a penciler on horror/mystery titles such as Ghosts, House of Mystery, and The Unexpected. By 1974, he was working regularly for Marvel Comics on Conan the Barbarian. From 1975–1976, Chan worked exclusively for DC including the artwork for Claw the Unconquered which was written by David Michelinie. While working on the Detective Comics series, he drew the first appearances of Captain Stingaree in issue #460 (June 1976) and the Black Spider in #463 (Sept. 1976). Under the name Chua, he was DC Comics' primary cover artist from approximately 1975 to 1977.
Chan pencilled several issues of Conan and Doctor Strange, and worked on Kull the Destroyer in 1977 and Power Man and Iron Fist in the 1980s. From about 1978 onward, he worked almost exclusively for Marvel and focused on Conan, including the annuals, in the 1980s.
In the early 1990s he joined Sega, providing character design and art for video games such as Eternal Champions.
In 2002, he retired except for commissioned artwork but returned to comics to draw writer Andrew Zar's adult-oriented webcomic The Vat #1 in 2009.

## Personal life

Chan was based in Oakland, California, and had three children; his daughter Cleo Caron Chan was born April 25, 1978. His daughter Kate Anne Chan was born on July 8, 1980. Ernie Chan died on May 16, 2012, after a nearly yearlong battle with cancer.

## Awards

Ernie Chan received an Inkpot Award in 1980.
In 2024, Chan was inducted into the Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame.
# Image-based lighting

Image-based lighting (IBL) is a 3D rendering technique which involves capturing an omnidirectional representation of real-world light information as an image, typically using a 360° camera. This image is then projected onto a dome or sphere analogously to environment mapping, and this is used to simulate the lighting for the objects in the scene. This allows highly detailed real-world lighting to be used to light a scene, instead of trying to accurately model illumination using an existing rendering technique.
Image-based lighting often uses high-dynamic-range imaging for greater realism, though this is not universal.
According to Fxguide, "Almost all modern rendering software offers some type of image-based lighting, though the exact terminology used in the system may vary."
Motion picture production makes use of image-based lighting, and it can be seen in movies like Monsters University, The Great Gatsby, and Iron Man 2.
One reference capture technique, sometimes referred to as "wickmania" by camera technicians and VFX supervisors, involves shooting footage of two small spheres (one matte, one of a light-reflective material) on a physical set. This is used when the IBL will be later applied to an animated object or character that interacts with live objects or characters under the same lighting conditions.
Image-based lighting is also used in some video games as video game consoles and personal computers start to have the computational resources to render scenes in real time using this technique. This technique is used in:
* Forza Motorsport 4
* Rise of the Tomb Raider
* Into the Stars
* SuperTuxKart
Image-based lighting is also a built-in feature of the Crytek CryEngine video game engine.
# Buffalo Island Central School District

Buffalo Island Central School District (or BIC) is a public school district based in Monette, Arkansas, United States. The Buffalo Island Central School District provides early childhood, elementary and secondary education for more than 850 prekindergarten through grade 12 students at its four northeast Arkansas facilities at Monette in Craighead County and Leachville in Mississippi County.
Buffalo Island Central School District's two schools are accredited by the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) and AdvancED.

## History

It was established on July 1, 1984, by the merger of the Leachville School District and the Monette School District.

## Schools

* Buffalo Island Central High School—serving more than 150 students in grades 10 through 12 in Monette, Craighead County.
* Buffalo Island Central Junior High School—serving more than 180 students in grades 7 through 9 in Leachville, Mississippi County.
* Buffalo Island Central West Elementary School—serving approximately 250 students in pre-kindergarten through grade 6 in Monette, Craighead County.
* Buffalo Island Central East Elementary School—serving approximately 275 students in pre-kindergarten through grade 6 in Leachville, Mississippi County.
# Qinhuangdao Beidaihe Airport

Qinhuangdao Beidaihe Airport (IATA: BPE, ICAO: ZBDH) is an airport serving the city of Qinhuangdao, Hebei province, north China. It is located in Longjiadian Town, Changli County, 47 kilometres (29 mi) from the city center and 34 kilometres (21 mi) from Beidaihe.

## History

The Beidaihe Airport project was started in 2004, and received approval from the State Council in July 2009. The construction feasibility report was approved in May 2011, and construction officially began in April 2012. The airport was opened on 31 March 2016, replacing the old Shanhaiguan Airport, which was shared with the military, as Qinhuangdao's main airport. Shanhaiguan Airport reverted to sole military use.

## Facilities

The airport occupies an area of 2,195 mu. It has a runway that is 2,600 meters long and 60 meters wide, and a 10,592-square-metre (114,010 sq ft) terminal building. It is designed to handle 500,000 passengers and 1,200 tons of cargo annually.

## Airlines and destinations

| Airlines | Destinations |
| 9 Air | Guangzhou, Hefei |
| Chengdu Airlines | Chengdu–Tianfu, Shijiazhuang |
| GX Airlines | Changsha |
| Hainan Airlines | Hangzhou, Harbin |
| Kunming Airlines | Kunming, Shijiazhuang |
| Shanghai Airlines | Shanghai–Pudong |
# South to America

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation is a 2022 book by scholar Imani Perry, published by Harper Collins. The book received the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
In researching the book, Perry travelled to over a dozen cities and towns in the American South, interviewing local residents, as well as documenting the histories of the locales; both distant histories as well as more contemporary.

## Narrative

Perry discusses various historical figures from the South during her travels. While in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, she documents the history of Shields Green, one of the raiders who took part in John Brown's raid on Harper Ferry, a failed attempt by abolitionists to seize control of the Harper's Ferry Armory and foment a nationwide slave rebellion. She discusses historical massacres such as Wilmington Massacre of 1898 as well as more contemporary racially motivated crimes such as the Charleston church shooting. Other parts of the book shift in focus to memoir as Perry discusses the lives of her grandmother and other family members who grew up in the South. The overall conclusion of the book is that racism was heavily ingrained in the American South, indeed the history of America, and that its effects continue to permeate to this day as racism remains pervasive in modern American society.

## Reception

The book received mostly positive reviews from critics. On Book Marks, from eight critics: five "rave", two "positive", and one "mixed".
In a positive review, writing for The New York Times, writer Tayari Jones stated that the book was an "insightful, ambitious and moving project" that combined many forms of literary technique including history, literary criticism, journalism, and memoir. Jones concluded that the book was an "essential meditation on the South, its relationship to American culture — even Americanness itself." Writing for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Suzanne Van Atten stated that the work was "...compelling, thought-provoking read sure to spark both consensus and debate, but ultimately it serves to illustrate just how much race impacts life in this country." For the Los Angeles Times, Carolyn Kellogg commended Perry for being able to discuss historical events, while also seamlessly supplementing the prose with personal experiences and cultural critique. Kellogg also states that in the work, Perry was able to tell vibrant stories without being constrained by literary borders separating disciplines or genres.
# Lovin and Withers Cottages

Lovin and Withers Cottages are a complex of five Bungalow/Craftsman style cottages located in Kingman, Arizona. The cottages are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

## Description

Lovin and Withers Cottages are located at the corner of Eighth and Topeka Streets in Kingman, Arizona. The five cottages were built in 1916 in the style Bungalow/Craftsman style. The five cottages are investment property, back then rentals were known as investments. There are five workers’ cottages as a complex. The five cottages were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
It was evaluated for National Register listing as part of a 1985 study of 63 historic resources in Kingman that led to this and many others being listed.
# Kefeng Lu station

Kefeng Lu Station (simplified Chinese: 科丰路站; traditional Chinese: 科豐路站; pinyin: Kēfēnglù Zhàn; Jyutping: fo$^1$fung$^1$lou$^6$ zaam$^6$) is a station of Guangzhou Metro Line 7, located underground at the intersection of Kefeng Road and Kaitai Avenue in Guangzhou's Huangpu District. It opened on 28 December 2023, with the opening of Phase 2 of Line 7.

## Station layout

| G | Street level | Exits B, C, D |
| L1 Concourse | Lobby | Ticket Machines, Customer Service, Shops, Police Station, Safety Facilities |
| L2 Platforms | Platform 2 | 7 towards Meidi Dadao (Jiazhuang) |
| Island platform, doors will open on the left ||
| L2 Platforms | Platform 1 | 7 towards Yanshan (Luogang) |

## Exits

The station was designed with four exits. In the station's initial opening, only Exits C and D on the west side of the Kefeng Road intersection of Kaitai Avenue were opened, while Exit B on the other side of the road was opened on 26 January 2025. In addition, the construction of Exit A has not yet been implemented.
The distance between this station and Suyuan Station is about 800 meters. Guangzhou Metro believes that the distance between the two stations is too long, and there are interchanges to Line 6 and Line 21 respectively at Luogang and Shuixi stations, so it does not set up a long transfer passageway to connect the two stations, but reserves an interface to connect to Luogang Wanda Plaza at Exit C, which is connected to Suyuan Station.
| Exit letter | Exit letter | Exit location | Nearby |
| B | B | Kaitai Avenue | |
| C | C | Kaitai Avenue | Kaitai Avenue (Kefeng Road Intersection) Public Bus Stop (Westbound), Luogang Wanda Plaza Public Bus Stop |
| D | D | Kaitai Avenue | Kaitai Avenue (Kefeng Road Intersection) Public Bus Stop (Eastbound) |

## Gallery

* Concourse
* Station construction site (January 2023)

## History

In Phase III of the Guangzhou Metro construction plan approved in 2017, Line 7 will set up Xinyang Xilu Station near the intersection of Xinyang Road West and Kaitai Avenue (i.e., the east side of the station's current location). In 2018, during the EIA phase of this line, Xinyang Xilu Station was adjusted to the location of this station and renamed to Kefeng Lu, which was finally implemented. On 4 September 4, 2019, the station site began enclosure construction.
At 12:00 on December 28, the station was put into use with the opening of Line 7 Phase 2.
# Stadion Ivaylo

Stadion Ivaylo (Bulgarian: Стадион „Ивайло“, English: 'Ivaylo Stadium') is a multi-purpose stadium in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Etar Veliko Tarnovo. The stadium holds 15,000 people and was built in 1958. The highest attendance ever at the venue was 40,000 on 18 September 1969 during a match between Etar and Levski Sofia. The match ended with a 0-2 defeat for Etar. In 1974, the stadium hosted a first round of the 1974–75 UEFA Cup between Etar and Inter Milan (0:0) with an attendance of 27,000. On 2 October 1991, on stadium Ivaylo, Etar secured a 1:1 draw with German champions Kaiserslautern in front of 15,000 people in the first round of the 1991-92 European Cup, the only time the stadium has hosted matches of the premier European international competition.
In recent years, the stadium has hosted the final for the Cup of Bulgarian Amateur Football League six times - in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022.
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# John Flaus

John Flaus is an Australian actor.

## Career

Flaus began acting in 1969 when he was on the set of the short film The American Poet's Visit, directed by Michael Thornhill. Flaus was there to observe the set, but Thornhill had told him to be on screen for a party scene.

## Filmography

* Rake (2014)
* Tracks (2013)
* Jack Irish (2012–2021) - 3 films and 15 episodes as Wilbur
* Pinion (2010)
* I Love You Too (2010)
* Mary and Max (2009)
* Harvie Krumpet (2003)
* Crackerjack (2002)
* The Dish (2001)
* The Castle (1997)
* Lilian's Story (1996)
* The Nun and the Bandit (1992)
* Bloodlust (1992)
* See Jack Run (1992)
* Spotswood (1992)
* In Too Deep (1990)
* Jigsaw (1990)
* Nirvana Street Murder (1990)
* Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1989)
* Grievous Bodily Harm (1988)
* Devil's Hill (telefilm) (1988)
* Ghosts of the Civil Dead (1988)
* Hungry Heart (1987)
* Feathers (1987)
* Traps (1986)
* My Country (1986)
* Bootleg (1985)
* Strikebound (1984)
* The Plains of Heaven (1982)
* Wronsky (1980)
* Blood Money (1980)
* Palm Beach (1979)
* Newsfront (1978)
* The Love Letters from Teralba Road (1977)
* Queensland (1976)
* Yackety Yak (1974)
* The American Poet's Visit (1969)