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# The Scorpio Illusion

The Scorpio Illusion is a 1993 novel by Robert Ludlum. It is a mix of suspense, drama, action and thriller.

## Plot summary

Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer — one of the best — until the rain-swept night in Amsterdam when his wife was murdered, an innocent victim.
Now Hawthorne has been called out of retirement for one last assignment. For he is the only man alive who can track down the world's most dangerous terrorist. Amaya Bajaratt is beautiful, elusive, deadly — and she has set in motion a chilling conspiracy that a desperate government cannot stop. With the life of the president hanging in the balance, Hawthorne must follow Amaya's serpentine trail to uncover the sinister network that exists to help this consummate killer. And Hawthorne must discover the shattering truth behind the Scorpio Illusion.

## Analysis

The novel "consciously draws on Freudian theory to lend depth to his treatment of the two dominant characters, a psychotic woman, driven by childhood traumas to emasculate dominant males and to destroy all symbols of male hierarchical power, and her opponent, a weakened, age-conscious male reaffirming his masculine strengths."
There is a factual error in the novel. Telephone conversations using scrambling are an important plot element in this novel. However, from about half-way through one side of the call is on a normal telephone. This is impossible; both phones must be equipped with compatible scrambler/descramblers.

## Publication history

* 1993, UK, HarperCollins ISBN 0-00-223971-X, Pub date April 8, 1993, Hardback
* 1993, UK, HarperCollins ISBN 0-00-224285-0, Pub date November 1, 1993, Paperback
* 1993, US, Bantam ISBN 0-553-09441-6, Pub date May 1, 1993, Hardback
* 1994, US, Bantam ISBN 0-553-18109-2, Pub date January 1994, Paperback
# Slávka Budínová

Slávka Budínová (21 April 1924 – 31 July 2002) was a Czechoslovak film actress. She appeared in over 60 films and television shows between 1953 and 1999.

## Selected filmography

* The Flood (1958)
* Lidé z maringotek (1966)
* The Tricky Game of Love (1971)
* Svět otevřený náhodám (1971)
* Noc na Karlštejně (1973)
* Hroch (1973)
* My Brother Has a Cute Brother (1975)
* Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)
# Berthold Benecke

Berthold Adolph Benecke (27 February 1843, Elbing – 27 February 1886, Königsberg) was a German anatomist and embryologist. He made contributions in diverse subjects such as photomicrography and fish farming.
Beginning in 1861 he studied medicine at the University of Königsberg, where his influences were surgeon Albrecht Wagner and botanist Robert Caspary. From 1870 to 1877 he served as an instructor and prosector at the anatomical institute in Königsberg. In 1877 he was appointed to the chair of topographical anatomy at the university.

## Published works

In 1868 he published "Die Photographie als Hilfsmittel mikroskopischer Forschung" (The photograph as a tool of microscopic research), a translation of Albert Moitessier's "La photographie appliquée aux recherches micrographiques". His treatises "The enemies of pond culture in central Europe" (1887) and "Observations on salmon in German rivers" (1887) have been translated into English. Other works by Benecke include:
* Der Vorgang der Befruchtung am Ei der Neunaugen (with Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer), 1878 – The process of fertilization involving the lamprey egg.
* Photogramme Zur Ontogenie Der Vogel (with Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer), 1879 – Photograms in studies of ontogeny in birds.
* Die Trichinen und die mikroskopische Fleischschau, 1879 – Trichinosis and microscopy associated with meat inspection.
* Fische, Fischerei und Fischzucht in Ost- und Westpreussen, 1880 – Fish, fishing and fish farming in East and West Prussia.
* Handbuch der Fischzucht und Fischerei (with E. Dallmer, edited by Max von dem Borne), 1886 – Handbook of fish farming and fishing.
* Die teichwirtschaft. : Praktische anleitung zur anlage von teichen und deren nutzung nebst einer anleitung zur ausnützung unserer gewässer durch krebse (with Bruno Hofer), 1921 – The pond economy; practical guide for the installation of ponds, etc.
# Elizabeth Noyce

Elizabeth Noyce (née Bottomley; October 7, 1930 – September 18, 1996) was an American philanthropist, and former wife of Fairchild Semiconductor general manager and a founder of Intel Corporation, Robert Noyce.

## Biography

Noyce was born Elizabeth Bottomley in Auburn, Massachusetts, United States, the daughter of Frank Bottomley and Helen McLaren. She was a 1951 graduate of Tufts University, located in the Boston suburb of Medford.
In the early 1950s, Robert Noyce was working on his doctorate at MIT, in Cambridge near Boston. The couple married in 1953, the year Robert received his PhD.
Several years later the Noyces moved to California, where Nobel laureate William Shockley had started Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View in 1956. Robert was one of the "traitorous eight" who left Shockley in 1957 and started Fairchild Semiconductor. He and Texas Instruments' Jack Kilby are credited with inventing the integrated circuit. In 1968, Noyce and Gordon Moore started Intel in Mountain View. Intel developed the first commercially available dynamic RAM (i1103), EPROM (i1702), and commercially available microprocessor (i4004), becoming a huge financial success.
During this time, the couple lived in Los Altos. They had four children: William B., Pendred, Priscilla, and Margaret. Elizabeth loved New England, so the family acquired a 50-acre coastal summer home in Bremen, Maine. She and the children would summer there. Robert would visit during breaks from Intel.
He also started an extramarital affair with a 28-year-old Intel mask designer, Barbara Maness, conducted as an "open secret" at Intel. Elizabeth learned of it and the marriage ended in divorce in 1975. Under California's community property law she received half of the couple's assets. Robert later married Ann Bowers, Intel's head of personnel.
Elizabeth then took up full residence in Bremen. She became the area's leading philanthropist and art collector. Among other major gifts, she established the Libra Foundation.
Noyce, a smoker, developed emphysema, and died from a heart attack on September 18, 1996, aged 65, at her home.
# Ilex taubertiana

Ilex taubertiana is a species in the genus Ilex of the family Aquifoliaceae. It is native to Brazil, typically in Atlantic Forest, where it is found in montane rain forests and cloud forests.
It is occasionally used to adulterate maté.
# Brian Harvey (lecturer)

Brian Keith Harvey (born 1949) is a former Lecturer SOE of computer science at University of California, Berkeley. He and his students developed an educational programming language named UCBLogo which is free and open-source software, a dialect of the language Logo, as an interpreter, for learners. He now works on Snap!.

## Education

He received his B.S. in mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1969, a M.S. in computer science, Stanford University, 1975, and a Ph.D. in science and mathematics education, University of California, Berkeley, 1985. He also received a M.A. in clinical psychology, New College of California, 1990.

## Work

Until retiring in July 2013, Harvey taught introductory (lower-division) computer science courses at Berkeley, and CS 195, Social Implications of Computing. He was also involved in the development of the language Logo for the use in K-12 education.
Together with the German programmer Jens Mönig, Harvey designed the programming language Build Your Own Blocks (BYOB), and its successor Snap!, an extended version of the language Scratch, which added higher-order functions and true object-oriented inheritance for first-class sprites. With CS10, The Beauty and Joy of Computing at Berkeley he co-established the first course to use BYOB and spread it to other colleges and high schools.

## Selected publications

* Harvey, Brian K.; Wright, Matthew (December 1993). Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262082266. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
* Harvey, Brian K. (March 1997). Volume 1: Symbolic Computing. Computer Science Logo Style. Vol. 1. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-58148-5. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
* Harvey, Brian K. (March 1997). Volume 2: Advanced Techniques. Computer Science Logo Style. Vol. 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-58149-3. Retrieved 2019-05-11. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
* Harvey, Brian K. (March 1997). Volume 3: Beyond Programming. Computer Science Logo Style. Vol. 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-58150-7. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
# Washington Historic District

Washington Historic District or variations including Commercial or other may refer to:

## in the United States

(by state then city)
* Washington Historic District (Washington, Arkansas), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Hempstead County, Arkansas
* Washington Commercial Historic District (Washington, Georgia), listed on the NRHP in Wilkes County, Georgia
* Washington Historic District (Washington, Georgia), listed on the NRHP in Wilkes County, Georgia
* West Washington Historic District, South Bend, Indiana, listed on the NRHP in St. Joseph County, Indiana
* Washington Commercial Historic District (Washington, Indiana), listed on the NRHP in Daviess County, Indiana
* Washington Downtown Historic District, Washington, Iowa
* Washington Historic District (Washington, Kentucky), listed on the NRHP in Kentucky
* Washington Historic District (Washington, Louisiana), listed on the NRHP in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
* Downtown Washington Historic District, Washington, Missouri, listed on the NRHP in Franklin County, Missouri
* Washington Historic District (Washington, North Carolina), listed on the NRHP in Beaufort County, North Carolina
* Old Washington Historic District, Old Washington, Ohio, listed on the NRHP in Guernsey County, Ohio
* Washington Court House Commercial Historic District, Washington Court House, Ohio, listed on the NRHP in Fayette County, Ohio
* East Washington Historic District, East Washington, Pennsylvania, listed on the NRHP in Pennsylvania
* Washington Historic District (Washington, Virginia), listed on the NRHP in Rappahannock County, Virginia
# Birán

Birán is a village in Holguín Province of Cuba, hamlet and consejo popular of Cueto, best known as the birthplace of Ramón, Fidel, Raúl and Juanita Castro. Their father Ángel Castro y Argiz owned a 93-square-kilometre (36 sq mi) plantation there.

## History

Until the 1976 municipal reform, the village was part of the neighboring municipality of Mayarí.
A farm in Birán was the birthplace of former Cuban revolutionary leaders Ramón Castro Ruz, Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro and their sister Juanita Castro.

## Geography

It is located 30 kilometers (19 mi) south-west of Mayarí and 9 kilometers (5.6 mi) south of Cueto, in the foothills of the Nipe Mountains (Sierra de Nipe).
# Udayan Sharma

Udayan Sharma (11 July 1949 – 23 April 2001) was an Indian author and journalist known for his investigative reporting. He worked for more than a decade in the field, covering topics such as politics, social issues, and business.

## Early life and education

Udayan Sharma was born into a family of freedom fighters in Agra. His father, Pandit Sreeram Sharma, was a lawyer, a veteran freedom fighter, and the founder editor of Vishal Bharat. At the time of his birth, both his parents and sisters were in jail. Their ancestral home in Agra was known as Bomb Ghar, and his father's name was closely associated with the Kakori conspiracy. Mahatma Gandhi had visited Udayan's father at the USAINI farms near Firozabad.
He named himself Udayan. He was admitted directly to class 7, completed his entire education in Agra, and pursued his MA from Agra University.

## Personal life

Udayan Sharma was married to Neelima Sharma, and they lived together in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The couple had two sons: Kartikeya and Kanishka Sharma.

## Career

Udayan Sharma was not just a journalist but also an activist. Under the guidance of Dr. Dharamvir Bharti, he learned the basics of journalism through Dharamyog. He published 'Ravivar' in 1977. He reported on communal riots, and some of his reports were translated into and published in English.
He unsuccessfully contested two Lok Sabha elections. First time in Lok Dal's ticket from Agra and later on Congress's ticket from Bhind. However, he eventually grew disenchanted with politics (especially after the death of Rajiv Gandhi, with whom he was close) and returned to journalism. In his final years, he was the Coordinating Editor of North India's largest Hindi newspaper group, Amar Ujala. The journalism he began with MJ Akbar and SP Singh in 1977 from Mumbai ended in Delhi in 2001.

## Death

Udayan died in Delhi on 23 April 2001. His funeral was held on 24 April 2001, at Nigambodh Ghat, and was attended by former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar, Former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, and Sushma Swaraj. In accordance with his last wishes, Udayan's family and friends immersed his ashes in the sacred river Ganga.
# The Scorpion's Gate

The Scorpion's Gate is a geopolitical thriller by former United States intelligence and Counterterrorism official Richard A. Clarke. The Scorpion's Gate is his first novel, but it is not his first book — unlike his non-fiction policy books this is an attempt to convey vital foreign policy ideas through fiction. The subtitle on the cover reads: "Sometimes you can tell more truth through fiction." The hardcover edition is 320 pages long.

## Synopsis

A coup in Saudi Arabia topples the sheiks and installs an Islamic government in its place. The weaknesses of the new government, combined with the oil riches of the country, attract attention from all over the world as larger, oil-hungry countries attempt to realign the map of the Middle East.
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# The Basement (play)

The Basement is a television play (later a stage play) by Harold Pinter. It was written first as a screenplay for a film, then revised for television and broadcast on 20 February 1967.

## Origin: "The Compartment"

The Basement is based on "The Compartment" (1965), an unpublished 27-page screenplay (circulated only in typescript) that Pinter wrote in 1963–65 "for a film never made, planned as part of a triple-bill, Project I promoted by Grove Press, New York, with Samuel Beckett's Film [1965] and Eugène Ionesco's The Hard-Boiled Egg" (Baker and Ross 112). Of the three works planned for this trilogy of films, "only Film would be produced, being released in 1965" (112).
According to Pinter's official authorised biographer Michael Billington, also cited by Baker and Ross (112), "Pinter's contribution The Compartment lay dormant until he rewrote it for television as The Basement" (Billington 191).

## Setting

The "exterior" and "interior" of "a basement flat" in various seasons and at various times of day and night (Two Plays and a Film Script 91–112).

## Synopsis

Two men, (Tim) Law and (Charles) Stott, compete for possession of and dominance over a "basement flat" and their at-times mutual girlfriend, Jane. During the course of the play, they reverse roles with relation to each other, to the ownership or possession of the flat, and to their relationship with or possession of Jane. The changing furnishings of the room reflect their changing roles and who is in power over whom at various points in time. At first Jane appears to be submissive in relation to the men; but as the action develops, at times she appears to dominate each man and both of them. The character relationships between Stott and Law and the basic plot resemble Pinter's prose fiction works "Kullus" and "The Examination".

## Characters

* Law, "a man"
* Stott, "a man"
* Jane, "a girl"

## Productions
### Television première

First transmitted on 20 February 1967, it formed part of BBC 2's Theatre 625 series.

#### Director

* Charles Jarrott

#### Cast

* Derek Godfrey, Law
* Harold Pinter, Stott
* Kika Markham, Jane

### Stage première: Eastside Playhouse, New York, October 1968

The Basement was first produced on stage at the Eastside Playhouse, in New York City, in October 1968, as part of a double bill with Pinter's play Tea Party, directed by James Hammerstein.

#### Cast

* Ted van Griethuysen, Law
* James Ray Jane, Stott
* Margo Ann Berdeshevsky, Jane

#### Stage personnel

* Ed Wittstein, Scenery
* Neil Peter Jampolis, Lighting
* Deidre Cartier, Costumes

### Duchess Theatre, London, September 1970

Hammerstein also directed another stage production at the Duchess Theatre, in London, on 17 September 1970 (The Basement, HaroldPinter.org) with a new cast.

#### Cast

* Donald Pleasence, Law
* Barry Foster, Stott
* Stephanie Beacham, Jane
# Embrace Home Loans

Embrace Home Loans Inc., formerly Advanced Financial Services Inc. (AFS), is an American full service direct mortgage lender. It is headquartered in Newport, Rhode Island. Embrace provides residential mortgage loans directly to its customers and is licensed in 46 states and Washington, D.C. The company employs 500+ people spanning 25 branches along the East Coast of the U.S.

## Company

The company was founded by Dennis Hardiman in 1983. A direct lender of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the company is also an Equal Housing Lender and an issuer of Ginnie Mae. The company is also approved by FHA and VA.
Embrace is an approved Servicer for:
* Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
* United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
* Ginnie Mae
Embrace is an active member of:
* Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)
* Direct Marketing Association (DMA)
* FNMA Regional Advisory Council

## Awards

* Top 25 Mortgage Companies in America (2014)
* 100 Most Influential Mortgage Executives, Kurt Noyce (2014)
* One of the Fastest-Growing Companies in Rhode Island (2013)
* The Best Place to Work in Rhode Island (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013)
* 50 Best Small & Medium Companies to Work for in America (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012)
* Business Excellence Award for Community Involvement (2006)

## Recent News

With the addition of a Retail Branch Origination in 2009, as well as a Correspondent Origination Division in 2013. Embrace is continuing to expand its branches across the country, including the opening of its 20th Retail Branch Office located in Charlottesville, VA. This particular office will focus on specializing in realtor sales, as well as builder and other referral business.
In December 2017, it was announced that Kurt Noyce would lead the Financial Institution Services Division. Noyce had been President of Embrace Home Loans for 18 years.
In 2024, it was announced that Ryan "Buddy" Hardiman would be President.

## Charity

Employees at Embrace are offered 100 hours of paid time off if they use it to volunteer. The company also matches employee donations up to $2,500 a year per employee.
# Ilex subtriflora

Ilex subtriflora is a species of plant in the family Aquifoliaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica.
# Brian Hau

Brian Hau (born 15 July 1982, Hong Kong) is a singer-songwriter, graphic designer, columnist, book author, and occasional cartoon artist based in Hong Kong. Hau's quirky style has earned him growing recognition in the singer-songwriter scene in Hong Kong.
Music
Not one to take himself too seriously, Hau has developed a signature sound all of his own. His songs are a unique combination of demos and improvised lyrics. Currently, he has released two albums named Definition (2006) and I'm Fat But I'm Happy (2008).
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada, the independent musician has a Bachelor of Design degree from the University of Alberta. He came home to embark on a career in one of the world’s most baffling music industries.
"My music is influenced by Cantopop, which I listened to in my younger days," says Hau. "But when I went to Canada I listened to radio there, and so there’s kind of a blend." Hau’s influences include the likes of Matchbox 20 and Alanis Morissette, and semi-obscure Canadian bands Our Lady Peace and Moist.
Writing
In 2010, Hau started to write columns for Mingpao. He later gathered these articles together with poetry, cartoons and photos he created into a book named "Hick and the City" in 2011. Hau published his second book "Gain and Loss" in 2014.
Hau's third book "Ladder" was published in 2017, it contains personal essays that cover his journey in climbing the 'ladder to success' and his recovery journey from Bipolar Affective Disorder.
# William Francis Thompson (philologist)

William Francis Thompson (1810–1842) was a British India civil servant, magistrate and philologist who was born in London, England, and died in Ghazipur, India.

## Biography

Thompson attended the Haileybury and Imperial Service College before joining the Bengal Civil Service. He was first appointed as an assistant magistrate in Bareilly, and later served in Bundelkhand, Delhi and Hissar. Taking medical leave in Australia in 1835, he subsequently returned to India where he died in 1842.
Thompson is known for his translation of the Akhlāq-i Jalālī, published in 1839 under the title Practical Philosophy of the Muhammadan People. He was also a poet and published India: A Poem, in Three Cantos, a work critical of British rule in India.
# Protiofate

Protiofate is a drug that has antimycotic activity and used in gynecology to treat yeast infections.
# Eupithecia ecplyta

Eupithecia ecplyta is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is found in Kenya.
# XHOL-FM

XHOL-FM is a radio station on 99.7 FM in Chignautla, Puebla and serving Teziutlán, known as Impacto FM.

## History

XEOL-AM 990 received its concession on July 30, 1964. The 500-watt station was owned by Margarita Castellanos Cortés. It was sold to Radio Impacto in 1972. In the 1990s, XEOL moved to 910 kHz and increased its power from 1,000 to 10,000 watts during the day.
XEOL was cleared to move to FM in 2011 and shuttered its AM facility in 2017.
# Usteria

    Usteria Dennst. is a synonym of the Euphorbiaceae genus Acalypha. Usteria Medik. is a synonym of the Hyacinthaceae genus Hyacinthoides.
Usteria is a plant genus in the family Loganiaceae. It was established in 1790 by Carl Ludwig Willdenow.
Species
# Wuling National Forest Recreation Area

Wuling National Forest Recreation Area (traditional Chinese: 武陵國家森林遊樂區; simplified Chinese: 武陵国家森林游乐区; pinyin: Wǔlíng Guójiā Sēnlín Yóulè Qū) is located in Heping District, Taichung, Taiwan.

## Geology

The forest recreation area spans over an area at the elevation of 1,800-3,884 meters above sea level with annual mean temperature of 16°C. It features the Taoshan Waterfall at the end of the Taoshan Trail.

## Transportation

The recreation area is accessible by bus from Taichung Station of Taiwan Railways.
# DXRE

DXRE (837 AM) Sonshine Radio was a radio station owned and operated by Sonshine Media Network International. The station's studio is located in Brgy. Lagao, General Santos.
On mid-December 2023, the station, along with the rest of the network, had its operations suspended by the National Telecommunications Commission for 30 days, through an order dated December 19 but was publicized two days later, in response to a House of Representatives resolution, in relation to the alleged franchise violations.