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# Darla (dog)

Darla (1975–1992) was a Bichon Frisé best known for her acting role as Precious in the 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs, which earned the Big Five Academy Awards. Darla also appeared in several other films, including Batman Returns (1992).

## Career and popularity

Darla began her career in the 1985 film Pee-wee's Big Adventure as Pink Poodle and later appeared in the 1989 film The 'Burbs, starring Tom Hanks. Her most notable role was as Precious in the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs. The film's success turned Darla into a cult icon, and she became the subject of a Facebook fan page titled "Precious." Her final role was in the 1992 film Batman Returns, where she played Ratty Poodle.

### Notable scenes

In The Silence of the Lambs, the following famous quote by serial killer Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine) is punctuated by a bark from Precious, whom he holds in his arms: “It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again!” This scene demonstrates that, despite his complete disregard for human life, Bill genuinely cared for the little dog. This is further evidenced by the small dog bed placed next to his sewing machine. Later in the film, Buffalo Bill's intended next victim, Catherine, manages to lure Precious into the dry well where she is being held captive. This stalls Buffalo Bill long enough for help to arrive. The dog is seen again after the ordeal, still being held by Catherine as she is placed in an ambulance.
In Batman Returns, Darla makes her final film appearance, credited as "Ratty Poodle." However, her fur was intentionally roughed up for the role, making her barely recognizable. In one scene, The Penguin and his crew confront Batman. One member of the crew, a blonde woman dressed in Victorian-era clothing, carries Darla. In this movie, Darla is portrayed as a significant nuisance for Batman. She runs to catch Batman's self-operating Batarang, which his enemies use in an attempt to frame him for the murder of the Ice Princess, thereby thwarting The Penguin's plan.

## Life and legacy

Darla worked with trainer Christie Miele on The Silence of the Lambs. According to Miele, Darla's "big thing" was stealing socks. She was highly intelligent and loved being around people. As noted in Comic Book Resources, "Although many won't recall Darla's impact on these films, there's no denying that her skills as an actor have linked two excellent movies and proved that she was one of the best dogs of her time."
Darla retired to Thousand Oaks, California, in 1992 and died later that year at the age of 16 or 17.
In the 2021 sequel television series Clarice, the role of Precious was taken over by a Bichon Frisé named Kendall.

## Filmography

* Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) as Pink Poodle
* Coming to America (1988) as Dottie
* The 'Burbs (1989) as Queenie
* The Silence of the Lambs (1991) as Precious
* Batman Returns (1992) as Ratty Poodle

## Television

* Coach (1990) as Watkin's Poodle
* Eerie, Indiana (1991) as Fifi
# Petra (disambiguation)

Petra is the Nabataean kingdom capital's archeological site, carved in the desert rock of (Trans)Jordan.
Petra, PETRA or Petria may also refer to :

## Places and jurisdictions
### Mediterranean

Greece
* Petra (Corinthia), a town of ancient Corinthia
* Petra (Elis), a town of ancient Elis
* Petra, Boeotia, a village and community of the Aliartos municipality
* Petra, Lesbos, a village and former municipality on the island of Lesbos
* Petra, Pieria, a former municipality in Pieria regional unit
* Petra, Preveza, a village in Preveza regional unit
Other
* Petra (Illyria), a town of ancient Illyricum, now in Albania
* Petra (Lycaonia), a town of ancient Lycaonia, now in Turkey
* Petra in Aegypto, a Hellenistic city and former bishopric in Aegyptus Primus, now Hagar-En-Nauatiyeh (Egypt) and a Latin Catholic titular see
* Petra, Cyprus, a former intercommunal village in Northern Cyprus
* Petra, Majorca, a town in Balearic Spain
* Petralia Sottana known as Petra in Classical times.

### Elsewhere

Black Sea
* Petra, Lazica, alias Petra in Lazica, a Roman fortress, settlement and former bishopric in Colchis, modern Georgia, now a Latin Catholic titular see
* Petra, a village in Bâcleș Commune, Mehedinţi County, Romania
Other
* Petra, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the US

## People

* Petra (given name)

## Arts and entertainment

* Petra (band), a Christian rock band
** Petra (album), their debut album
* Petra (film), a 2018 Spanish film
* Petra (sculpture), a 2010 sculpture by Marcel Walldorf
* Petra (TV series), a 2020 Italian TV crime series

## Business

* Petra (agency), Jordanian news agency
* Petra Airlines, former airline based in Amman, Jordan
* Petra Bank, bankrupt Jordanian bank
* Petra Diamonds, diamond mining company
* SS Petra, a West German merchant ship

## Science

* PETRA (Positron-Electron Tandem Ring Accelerator), a particle accelerator

## Other uses

* Petra (dog), a dog on the British children's TV programme Blue Peter
* Petra High School, an independent school in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
* Petra (swan), an animal who become famous in 2006 for falling in love with a pedalo
* Petra, the official mascot of the 1992 Summer Paralympics.
* Petria (brachiopod), a brachiopod genus
* Petra, database system used by the UK Citizens Advice Bureau from 2011
# Cumberland Subdivision

The CSX Cumberland Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Maryland and West Virginia. The line runs from Brunswick, Maryland, west to Cumberland, Maryland, along the old Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road (B&O) main line. At its east end, the Cumberland Subdivision becomes the Metropolitan Subdivision; at its west end at Cumberland, Maryland it becomes the Cumberland Terminal Subdivision. It meets the Shenandoah Subdivision at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and the Lurgan Subdivision in Cherry Run, West Virginia.

## History

The Cumberland Subdivision was opened in 1842 as part of the B&O's main line.
In 1914 the Baltimore and Ohio RR opened the Magnolia Cutoff, a more direct route through mountain ridges, running 14 miles (23 km) between Hansrote, West Virginia and Paw Paw, West Virginia. The project included construction of four tunnels, two bridges, and many deep rock cuts. The B&O continued to use the original route along the Potomac River, called the "Lowline," until 1961.
In 1987 the subdivision and the rest of the B&O system were merged into CSX.

## Current operation

The Cumberland Subdivision supports freight and passenger traffic, with frequent runs of intermodal, autoracks, coal unit trains, mixed freights, oil trains, and Amtrak's Capitol Limited in both directions. The MARC Brunswick Line commuter trains stop at Martinsburg, WV, Duffields, WV, Harpers Ferry, WV, and points east in Maryland, terminating at Union Station in Washington, D.C.
# Kunów, Wrocław County

Kunów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sobótka, within Wrocław County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately 5 km (3 mi) south-east of Sobótka and 32 km (20 mi) south-west of the regional capital Wrocław.
# Signed to the Streets 2

Signed to the Streets 2 is a mixtape by American rapper Lil Durk. The mixtapes features production from BackPack, C-Sick, Cardo, Dree The Drummer, Flexx Beats, JPlatinum, LeekeLeek, Murda Beatz, OZ, Squat Beats, Tarentino, The Mekanics, Young Chop and features guest appearances from Ca$h Out, French Montana, Johnny May Cash, Migos and Young Thug. It is hosted by DJ Drama and Don Cannon. It was released on July 7, 2014. The No DJ version was released on July 22, 2014. As of October 31st, 2022, the mixtape has been downloaded over 680,000 times on DatPiff and certified double platinum.
# Sakarya gudgeon

The Sakarya gudgeon (Gobio sakaryaensis) is a species of gudgeon, a small freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Gobionidae. It is found only in the Tozman Stream and Sakarya River in Turkey. It is a freshwater subtropical demersal fish, up to 11.5 cm long.
# William Ross Smyth

William Ross Smyth CBE (January 3, 1857 – September 7, 1932) was an Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Algoma in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1902 to 1908 and Algoma East in the House of Commons of Canada from 1908 to 1917 as a Conservative member.
He was born in Thomroam, Tarves, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the son of Francis Smyth. In 1879, he married Nancy Burden. Smyth was a lumber merchant. He was also president of the Nancy Helen Mine. He led the 238th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1919 New Year Honours.
# Vanillyl alcohol

Vanillyl alcohol is derived from vanillin. It is used to flavor food.

## Chemistry

Vanillyl alcohol can be produced by reducing vanillin with sodium borohydride under basic conditions, then quenching using a strong acid such as hydrochloric acid.
# Kurczów

Kurczów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Borów, within Strzelin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately 5 km (3 mi) north-east of Borów, 13 km (8 mi) north of Strzelin, and 26 km (16 mi) south of the regional capital Wrocław.
# Central Advisory Commission

The Central Advisory Commission (CAC) was a body of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that existed during the era of the paramount leadership of Deng Xiaoping. The body was supposed to provide "political assistance and consultation" to the CCP Central Committee; however, as the CAC was a select group of senior CCP leadership, it was often seen as having more authority unofficially than that body.

## History

The commission was established after the 12th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 1982, and abolished in 1992.$^{:277}$ Its chairmen were Deng Xiaoping (1982–1987) and Chen Yun (1987–1992). Its membership was offered only to members of the Central Committee with forty years or more of service which made it an important forum for the Eight Elders to remain formally involved in politics.$^{:142}$ Directors and deputy directors were required to have first served in the Politburo or Politburo Standing Committee. Despite being supposedly advisory its power surpassed that of the Politburo Standing Committee and was nicknamed the "Sitting Committee" on account of the advanced age of its members.

## Commentary

According to Yasheng Huang, the CAC served as a restraint on the leadership at the time by the Eight Elders and was, as an institution, "best positioned to check and balance a future dictator."$^{:120}$ Huang stated that its abolition paved the way for the rise of Xi Jinping.$^{:142}$
# Miles Clark

Miles Clark (3 November 1960 – 17 April 1993) was a sailor, journalist and writer from Northern Ireland. A few months before he died, Clark circumnavigated Europe through several of Russia's waterways which led him to winning the Cruising World Medal for Outstanding Seamanship.

## Early life

Born Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland on 3 November 1960, he was the son of Wallace Clark and the godson of Miles Smeeton, themselves both yachtsmen and authors. His brother Bruce became a foreign correspondent at The Times.
Clark was educated at Shrewsbury and Downing College, Cambridge, later going up to Sandhurst. At Cambridge, he studied Geography and organised an expedition to climb volcanoes and undertake scientific research in Atka, a remote island in the Aleutian archipelago. As a soldier in 1984, he was one of the oarsmen who rowed Tim Severin's replica Greek galley through the Black Sea to Georgia in the U.S.S.R.

## Writing

He left the army to become a full-time freelance travel writer and photographer in his mid-20s. As well, he was Features Editor of Yachting Monthly and wrote articles for other magazines. His biography of Miles and Beryl Smeeton, High Endeavours was published in 1991. He also wrote a short book entitled "Skydiving in Eight Days" and was illustrator of his father Wallace Clark's book "Lord of the Isles Voyage: Western Ireland to the Scottish Hebrides in a 16th Century Galley" in 1993.

## Circumnavigation of Europe

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Clark saw the opportunity for travelling through Russian internal waters.
With grudging permission from the KGB and sponsorship from National Geographic he departed from Northern Ireland in the summer of 1992 sailing the family's 60-year-old wooden yacht Wild Goose into the Arctic Circle.
Setting out on the 3,200-kilometre route, first circling Norway and entering the White Sea, he then travelled to the Black Sea crossing the White Sea – Baltic Canal until the Onega Lake, then proceeding through the Volga-Baltic waterway to the Rybinsk Reservoir and the Volga River. He then successively followed the Volga–Don Canal and the Don River to the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, returning to Northern Ireland.
Wild Goose, a 36 ft yawl built in 1935, was the first non-Russian boat to make that journey.

## Personal life

He married Sarah Hill in 1987; the couple had a son, Finn, born in 1990. Finn became an illustrator and his work included a watercolour of Wild Goose sailing away, for the title cover for The Call of the Running Tide by his grandfather Wallace Clark. Finn died in December 2015.

## Sudden death

Miles Clark died unexpectedly a few months after his return home from his Russia expedition, in Salisbury on 17 April 1993 aged 32, from the possible effects of toxins absorbed during the trip. He was writing a book about the trip when he died. The book, Sailing Round Russia was completed by his father, based on the ship's logs.
# Yahya Hammuda

Yahya Hammuda (Arabic: يحيى حمودة, also transliterated Hamoudeh or Hammouda ; 1908 – 16 June 2006) was the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee from 24 December 1967 to 2 February 1969, following the resignation of Ahmad Shukeiri. He was a veteran activist in Palestinian refugee affairs and a colorless left-leaning lawyer. His tenure as Chairman did not leave a mark on the organization.

## Biography

Hammuda was born in the village of Lifta in 1908.

### General Refugee Congress

Following the Nakba, Hammuda took part in an attempt to secure a role for an independent Palestinian refugee delegation to the Rhodes armistice talks together with Muhammad Nimr al-Hawari and 'Aziz Shehadah. He was a founding member of the General Refugee Congress (GRC). The first GRC gathering occurred on 17 March 1949 in Ramallah, where Muhammad Nimr al-Hawari was elected as President and Hammuda as deputy. They persevered with an attempt at securing formal recognition for the body, but they were marginalized by Jordan, where the GRC was based. The Palestine Conciliation Commission (PCC) hoping to gain a degree of independent Palestinian representation, invited GRC delegates to come and appear before the them. Ultimately the body was politically "ill-fated."

### Role in the PLO and post-1967 politics

Hammuda was elected as acting chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization in late 1967. He had previously been a member of the PLO's Executive Committee.
On January 21, 1968, Hammuda was received in Jordan by King Hussein and prime minister Bahjat al-Talhuni in a public welcome to reinvigorate the PLO within Jordan.
He was succeeded as chairman by Yasser Arafat.

## Views

In the aftermath of the 1967 war, while acting as PLO chairman, Hammuda publicly stated his belief that Jewish citizens of Israel could not be expelled to the countries from which they had emigrated. This "moderation" came under criticism from Palestinian factions who were troubled by Hammuda's apparent "willingness to come to terms with the existence of Israel." The statement was ultimately retracted.
Historian Yezid Sayigh suggests that Hammuda was a "sympathizer" to the leftist Palestinian faction called the Popular Organization for the Liberation of Palestine (POLP, est. 1964 by Samir al-Khatib and 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Wajih). POLP had "a modest following" and "Maoist leanings" and sought "to bring all guerilla forces under PLA command within a single body."
# Borneo fruit bat

The Borneo fruit bat (Aethalops aequalis) is a species of megabat found in the mountains of Borneo, specifically East Malaysia and Brunei. It is considered a subspecies of Aethalops alecto by some authors.
The Borneo fruit bat typically roosts in small groups in trees, under banana leaves, palm fronds and man-made structures.

## Taxonomy

The Borneo fruit bat was described in 1938 by American zoologist Glover Morrill Allen. The holotype was collected in 1937 in Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia, which is on the island of Borneo. It was collected by J. Augustus Griswold, Jr. while on the Harvard Primate Expedition led by Harold Jefferson Coolidge Jr. The Borneo fruit bat has, at times, been considered a synonym of the pygmy fruit bat. As of 2019, the prevailing consensus is that the Borneo fruit bat is indeed a separate species.

## Description

This bat is physically described as having reddish-brown fur with lighter coloring along the ventral side. The fur is longer along the back of the bat. It has a long, pointed snout. As one of the smallest of the Old World fruit bats, the Borneo fruit bat has a forearm length between 42mm and 46mm.

## Range and habitat

The Borneo fruit bat is only found on the island of Borneo, where its range includes Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. It is found in areas of high elevation, and has not been documented lower than 550 m (1,800 ft) above sea level.

## Conservation

As of 2016, the Borneo fruit bat is listed as a least-concern species by the IUCN—its lowest conservation priority. It meets the criteria for this classification because it has a large geographic range, across which it is relatively common.
# Caprino Veronese

Caprino Veronese is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 120 kilometres (75 mi) west of Venice and about 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of Verona.
Caprino Veronese borders the following municipalities: Affi, Brentino Belluno, Costermano, Ferrara di Monte Baldo, Rivoli Veronese, and San Zeno di Montagna.

## Twin towns

* Gau-Algesheim, Germany, since 1984
* Saulieu, France, since 2004

## Trivia

Caprino Veronese is the headquarters of TeleRadio1, a German-language radio station serving German tourists as well as German expats and Italians who are interested in learning German. It was founded by Jens Niklas and Francesca Cargnoni. The station broadcasts both Italian as well as international music. News is broadcast exclusively in German, with the news provided by TeleRadio1's parent company LautFM.
# Cross-Cultural Solutions

Cross-Cultural Solutions, also known as CCS, was a New Rochelle, New York-based non-for-profit working to address critical global issues. The organization used a community-designed approach to international volunteering. Cross-Cultural Solutions was operating in nine countries worldwide: Brazil, Costa Rica, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Morocco, Peru, Tanzania, and Thailand.
Volunteers assisted with education, health-care and community development projects.
# Georgii Tushkan

Georgii Pavlovich Tushkan (1905–1965) was a Russian novelist, specializing in adventure and science fiction.

## Personal life

Tushkan's father was Pavel Fedorovich Tushkan, an agronomist and a teacher. In 1926, Tushkan graduated from Uman Polytechnic, then in 1929 from Kharkov Institute of Grain Crops. Starting in 1933, he worked Pamir Mountains, conducting economic surveys for the Turksib highway and other facilities. He traveled extensively through Central Asia.
During World War II, Tushkan voluntarily enlisted in the Red Army in 1941. He was wounded several times. He worked in intelligence, searching for German missile weapons, which he described in his 1961 book Hunters for the FAA.
In the 1960s, Tushkan was chairman of the science fiction and adventure division of the Moscow Writing Organization.

## Books

* Blue Beach (co-authored with M.P. Loskutov) (1937)
* Jura (1940) (translated into English as The Hunter of the Pamirs, 1944)
* Green Country Scouts (1950)
* Black Tornado (1954)
* Hunters for the FAA (1961)
* Birds Fly North: Hunting and Fishing Adventures (1961)
* Friends and Enemies of Anatoly Rusakov (1963)
* First Shot (1967)

## Footnotes

* ↑ Google Books
# Red Ames

Leon Kessling "Red" Ames (August 2, 1882 – October 8, 1936) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1903 to 1919 for the New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals, and Philadelphia Phillies. Listed at 5 feet 10.5 inches (1.791 m) and 185 pounds (84 kg), he threw right-handed and was a switch hitter.

## Major league career

Born in Warren, Ohio, Ames was a third or fourth starter for the New York Giants during their early period of dominance under John McGraw. He made his debut on September 14, 1903, pitching an abbreviated five-inning no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals (the game was called due to darkness), but was not in the rotation full-time until 1905, when his 22 wins and 2.74 ERA helped the Giants to their first twentieth-century world championship. This was by far his best season; although the Giants were perennial contenders during this time, injury and wildness kept him from becoming a star even though he was the Opening Day pitcher three years running. A career ERA of 2.63 ties him with Cy Young.
He pitched in three World Series with the Giants (1905, 1911, 1912), but appeared almost entirely in relief in the fall classic, starting only once, the last game in 1911, which he lost decisively to the world champion Philadelphia Athletics. He was traded to the Reds in 1913, and never again approached his earlier success with the Giants.
Ames' greatest distinction was being one of the wildest pitchers in history with a curveball charitably described as "dramatic." Other of his notable accomplishments are leading the National League in saves with six in 1914 and eight in 1916, and in strikeouts per nine innings pitched in 1905 (6.78), 1906 (6.90) and 1907 (5.63).
On Opening Day, April 15, 1909, he held the Brooklyn Superbas hitless for nine innings, but as neither team had scored, extra innings were required. Ames allowed a hit in the 10th inning, then went on to allow three runs in the 13th inning, as the Giants lost, 3–0. Such efforts were originally recognized as no-hitters (as no hits were allowed through nine innings), but since 1991 are no longer recognized by Major League Baseball. This nonetheless remains the longest outing by a Giants starting pitcher on Opening Day.
Ames, Lee Meadows and Bill Doak were involved in a car accident on April 16, 1919, when the car they were in crashed into a streetcar in St. Louis. Initial reports indicated that none were seriously injured.

## Later years

After leaving the majors, Ames pitched in the minor leagues for three more years and managed briefly in the minors in 1923. His son, Leon Kessling "Red" Ames Jr., played for Ohio State in 1927 and then in the farm system of the Pittsburgh Pirates for several years.
# Blobfish

Blobfish may refer to:
* Psychrolutidae, a fish family commonly known as blobfishes
** Psychrolutes microporos, commonly known as a blobfish or fathead
*** Mr Blobby (fish), a individual specimen of Psychrolutes microporos and the subject of a well-known photograph
** Psychrolutes marcidus, commonly known as a smooth-head blobfish or simply a blobfish
** Psychrolutes occidentalis, Western blobfish or Western Australian sculpin
** Psychrolutes phrictus, blob sculpin, also commonly known as a blobfish
* Ebinania macquariensis, Macquarie blobfish, a species of Ebinania