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# Popular Committees (Syria)

The Popular Committees (also called Lijan militias; Arabic: اللجان الشعبية al-Lijan al-Sha'biyah, meaning "people's committees") were militias that emerged in Syria during the Syrian Civil War. They originated as neighborhood vigilante groups in the Christian, Druze and Alawi and Shia Muslim quarters of Damascus and elsewhere to prevent the infiltration of Sunni-dominated rebel groups. However, the Popular Committees included a significant number of pro-regime Sunni Muslims as well.
The Popular Committees were armed by the Syrian government and manned checkpoints around their districts. They have been accused of carrying out extrajudicial executions and revenge killings. Reuters quoted a Druze resident of Jaramana: "[The government] say the Lijans help us protect ourselves, but really they just wanted to light the sectarian fuse in Damascus". StrategyPage claimed that the Syrian Army offered weapons to minority communities in contested cities: "if the minorities will form self-defense militias and keep rebels out, the Army will not fire artillery at those neighborhoods". Tony Badran of Now Lebanon commented: "Assad seeks to assemble the minorities around him in order to present himself as the sole and unavoidable interlocutor on behalf of these segments of Syrian society, where he has cultivated loyal patches". Iran has assisted in setting up and training Shia militias in Syria.
In Aleppo, some residents claimed that the Syrian Army organized a Christian militia during fighting there in August 2012. In the Jdeideh quarter, the Christian militia was allegedly the first to fight against rebels. The day after a bombing killed four government officials, including the Greek Orthodox Christian Syrian Minister of Defence, General Dawoud Rajiha, it was reported by residents that at least 200 AK-47s were handed out in a Christian neighborhood of Damascus.
From around mid-2012, hundreds of Popular Committees and other irregular paramilitary groups were merged into what became the National Defence Force, bringing more organisation to the groups and subordinating them within the Syrian security structures.

## Legacy

After the fall of the Assad regime in late 2024, the Syrian transitional government began prosecute individuals who had committed crimes during the Syrian civil war. Ahmed Taama (alias "Abu Wassim al-Ruz"), "a prominent figure in the Popular Committees", was arrested over "criminal acts against civilians" in several Syrian Palestinian refugee camps in January 2025.
# Princess Sela

Princess Sela (active c. 400–420 A.D.) was a possibly fictional Norwegian pirate and one of the first known female pirates. Sela was said to be a princess of Norway (although her alleged lifetime far predates the effective forming of that land) and the sister of the King Koller of Norway. The Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus, living 600 or more years after her possible time, described Sela as a "skilled warrior and experienced in rowing."
Stories say that Sela and her brother hated each other and when Koller became King, Sela decided to become a pirate. She attacked many ships in the North Atlantic ocean, amassing a reputation and a substantial amount of treasure.
Princess Sela's brother King Koller decided that his rival, Horwendill, the former King of Jutland who turned to piracy, was receiving too much glory and had to be killed. Koller led his fleet into battle with Horwendil. Horwendil then killed Koller, and then later had to kill Sela to end the war.
# Filippo De Grassi

Filippo "Philip" De Grassi (1793–1877) was an Italian soldier of fortune and influential player in the Rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada.
De Grassi was born in Rome, Italy in 1793 to lawyer Alfio Mariano Grassi and Anna Elizabetha Brumaritz, daughter of an Austrian Baron. De Grassi served as a captain in Napoleon's French Army during the Peninsular War.
During the war De Grassi was captured by the British and shipped to England. It was there he obtained a commission in the York Light Infantry Volunteers regiment of the British Army.
He was sent to the British West Indies and served there from 1812 to 1815. After his tour, he returned to England and made a living by teaching languages. In 1831 De Grassi and his family moved to Canada and settled in York, Upper Canada. He owned free land as a result of his military service at Don Mills Road and the Don River.
As father, his involvement in the Family Compact came via two of his daughters, Cornelia De Grassi (approx. 1822–d. 1885) and Charlotte De Grassi (approx. 1822–d. 1872), whom were romantically involved in this powerful political clan. In Canada De Grassi was involved in the local militia. He later moved to Lindsay, Ontario, where he died in 1877. His son Alexander De Grassi was a businessman in Toronto.
De Grassi Street in Toronto was named in his honour; the name has gained international recognition through the Degrassi television series.
# Saskia Tidey

Saskia Tidey (born 11 June 1993 in Dublin, Ireland) is a sailor who has represented both Ireland and Great Britain in international sailing regattas.
Tidey represented Ireland at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 49er FX class.
In January 2017, Tidey confirmed that she hoped to represent Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics due to the retirement of sailing partner Andrea Brewster and the unavailability of another suitable partner in Ireland for the 49er FX skiff event. She qualified to represent Great Britain through her British-born father Don Tidey. On 1 October, the British Olympic Association confirmed that Tidey had been selected to represent Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the 49er FX skiff class alongside Charlotte Dobson. They finished 6th in their event in Tokyo.
With Dobson retiring after the Olympics, Tidey paired with Freya Black in the women's 49er FX in 2022. The duo won gold at the Lanzarote International Regatta in February 2023. They then finished fifth at the 2023 Sailing World Championships in The Hague, Netherlands, during the following month in a result which qualified the boat for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
In October 2023, Tidey's place at the Olympics in Paris was officially confirmed when the Great Britain sailing squad was announced by Team GB.
Alongside Black, she came 14th at 49erFX World Championship in Lanzarote, Spain, in March 2024.
Tidey and Black took bronze at the 49er FX European Championship in La Grande-Motte, France, in May 2024.
At the 2024 Olympics, Tidey and Black missed out on a place in the 10-boat medal race, finishing 16th. She was a member of the team of women who competed for the Women's America's Cup. Other team members were Tash Bryant, Hattie Rogers, Anna Burnet and Ellie Aldridge and they were captained by Hannah Mills.The team made it through the heats and their boat Athena Pathway was beaten in the finals in October by the Italians.
# Lincoln County Leader

The Lincoln County Leader is a weekly newspaper based in Newport, Oregon, United States. It was formed in January 2024 by the merger of the Newport News-Times and Lincoln City News Guard, both published by Country Media, Inc. The newspaper takes the name of an earlier publication that existed from 1893 to 1987. The Leader is the newspaper of record for Lincoln County.

## History

At least 20 different newspapers have been published in the Lincoln County area. The county's first newspaper was the Yaquina Post, established in 1882 and published in Yaquina City by Collins Van Cleve. In 1889, Van Cleve was also publishing the Scio Press out of Yaquina City. One of the papers, founded in 1886, was called the Newport News, but it was short-lived.
Various newspapers started and closed until 1893, when, in the same year Lincoln County was officially established from part of Benton County, two newspapers were started: the Yaquina Bay News out of Newport, and the Lincoln County Leader out of Toledo. In 1947, Monroe Sweetland, owner of the Molalla Pioneer, purchased the 53-year-old Yaquina Bay News from Doy I. Fruit and the 23-year-old Newport Journal from Harold Perrine. He then combined the two to form the Newport News.
In July 1965, the Newport News Publishing Co. purchased the Lincoln County Times of Waldport following the death of its publisher Dave Hall. The paper was merged that November with the Newport News to form the Newport News-Times. The News-Times bought the Lincoln County Leader about a year later. Both papers were sold by Walter Taylor and Lee Irwin in 1977 to the Democrat-Herald Publishing Co., which published the Albany Democrat-Herald. Capital Cities purchased the company in 1980, which itself was acquired by the Walt Disney Company in 1995. Disney sold its Oregon newspapers to Lee Enterprises in 1997.
The Beach Resort News in Delake started in 1930 and the Lincoln Coast Guard in Nelscott started in 1937. The two merged in 1939 to form the North Lincoln News Guard. In 1965, the name was changed to the Lincoln City News Guard. The paper was purchased in 1967 by Dave Juenke and sold to Scripps-Ifft Newspapers Inc. The company sold the newspaper to Swift-Pioneer Publishing Co. in 1983. The paper was sold to Oregon Coast Newspapers LLC in February 2003, and was sold again to Country Media, Inc. in April 2007.
Lee Enterprises sold the Newport News-Times in 2007 to News Media Corporation. The paper was sold again In 2023 to Country Media, Inc. In January 2024, Country Media merged the Newport News-Times and Lincoln City News Guard into a single newspaper named after the Lincoln County Leader, which had published for 94 years from 1893 to 1987. The plan was first announced in the previous October.
# The Barbour Democrat

The Barbour Democrat is a weekly newspaper published on Wednesdays in Philippi, West Virginia. It is the only newspaper published in Barbour County and has a paid circulation of 5,300, accounting for 31% of the county's population. It is a member of the West Virginia Press Association.
The Barbour Democrat has been published continuously since 6 July 1893, when it was founded by Aldine S. Poling. In the 1940s it absorbed a rival paper, The Philippi Republican. The paper was owned and operated by the Byrne family, but is now owned in its entirety by J. Eric Cutright; Lars Byrne is the editor and the only remaining Byrne family member still employed by The Barbour Democrat.
Coverage consists of serious news from the region, reported by staff, and social items contributed by readers. In addition to covering events in Philippi, Belington and Junior, the Democrat runs several regular columns reporting news from small rural communities in the county. Despite its name, the paper has long since abandoned political partisanship and does not publish editorials or endorse candidates.
In 2004, The Barbour Democrat received the Barbour County Chamber's Directors' Award 'for long and faithful dedication to the continuing prosperity of Barbour County and its citizens, wherever in the world they may now be living.' In 2005, the paper won the West Virginia Education Association's Golden Apple Award for continuous coverage of education issues.
# 2520

2520 may refer to:
* 2520 (number) - the first number that is divisible from every number 1-10.
* The year 2520 in the 26th century
# Locust Point, Bronx

Locust Point (also Pirate Cove) is a small, peninsular neighborhood in the southeastern portion of the New York City borough of the Bronx. It is bounded by Harding Avenue on the north, the Throgs Neck Bridge to the east, and Eastchester Bay. The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community District 10. The area contains single-family houses, populated ethnically by Irish, German, and Italian families. A famous former resident of Locust Point is Michael Kay, the Yankees TV broadcaster on the YES Network and radio talk show host on 1050 ESPN radio. The Locust Point Yacht club occupies the outermost block before the bay.
Locust Point used to be an island called Locust Island, however, the waterway that separated it from mainland Bronx was filled in and built upon. After it was no longer an island, its name was changed. Part of the landfill was for the bridge's northern ramp and toll plaza. Before it was Locust Island, it was called Wrights Island because it was owned by Captain J. T. Wright.
# Jack Hoey

John Bernard Hoey (November 10, 1881 – November 14, 1947) was an outfielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1906 through 1908 for the Boston Americans/Red Sox. Listed at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m), 185 lb., Hoey batted and threw left-handed. A native of Watertown, Massachusetts, he was signed by Boston out of the College of the Holy Cross.
In a three-season career, Hoey was a .232 hitter (116-for-500) with 39 runs and 35 RBI in 146 games, including 10 doubles, five triples and 13 stolen bases. He did not hit a home run. He also made 126 outfield appearances at left field (111), right (11) and center (4), committing 19 error in 218 chances for a collective .913 fielding percentage.
Hoey died in Waterbury, Connecticut at age 66.

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# John C. Jacob

John C. Jacob (1936 – 11 October 2008) was one of the pioneers of the environmental movement in Kerala, India.

## Biography

John Jacob was born at Nattakam in Kottayam.
He earned a degree in zoology from Madras Christian College, after which he joined the faculty at St. Joseph's College, Devagiri in Kozhikode. Eventually he headed up the Zoology Department at Payyanur College, where he worked until he retired in 1992.
At Payyanur, in 1972 he started a zoology club that would form the genesis of campus-based nature conservation activities. The club also became involved in protesting threats to the environment. Jacobs also started a few "green" magazines stressing the need to preserve nature. He also set up the Society for Environment Education, Kerala (SEEK), which published an environment-focused magazine Soochimukhi. Additionally, Jacob led the movement against the Silent Valley project in South Kerala.
He is the author of several books, including Prakrithi: Nireekshanavum Vyakhyanavum and Urangunnavarude Thazhvaraka.
In recognition of his contributions to the environment, he was awarded the Kerala Biodiversity Board's Haritham Award and the state government's Vana Mithra Award.
The name of the plant Impatiens johnsiana is dedicated Prof. John C. Jacob who was popularly known as 'Johnsi', an ardent naturalist who had devoted his life to conserve the biodiversity of the Western Ghats. The new plant is endemic to these parts of Western Ghats on densely clothed tree trunks in evergreen forests at an altitude of 1500-700 MSL. The observations showed that there are less than five hundred mature individuals restricted to a 10 km2 vested forest area. Impatiens johnsiana falls under the category Critically Endangered-CR (IUCN 2001). The research team included Dr M. K. Ratheesh Narayanan (now with Payyannur College Kannur; Dr C. N. Sunil (Sree Narayana Mangalm College, Moothakunnam Ernakulam); Dr N. Anil Kumar, Jayesh P. Joseph (MSSRF, Wayanad) and Dr T. Shaju (Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Thiruvananathapuram).
# Pure Fusion Collective

Pure Fusion Collective (P.F.C.) is a women's professional wrestling tag team performing in WWE on the Raw brand, consisting of Shayna Baszler and Zoey Stark. Formerly a stable, the team previously included Sonya Deville.

## History

On the September 4, 2023 episode of Raw, Shayna Baszler defeated Zoey Stark by technical submission after Stark passed out to Baszler's Kirifuda Clutch. After the match, Baszler gave praise to Stark's toughness. In the following week, Stark ran out to save Baszler when Baszler was attacked by Chelsea Green and Piper Niven after Baszler's match with Green. On the September 18 episode of Raw, Baszler and Stark teamed up for the first time to face Green and Niven, however the match ended in a no contest after Nia Jax interrupted match. At Raw: Day 1 on January 1, 2024, Baszler and Stark defeated Tegan Nox and Natalya to become the #1 contenders for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship but they failed to win the titles.
On the May 20 episode of Raw, Sonya Deville, who makes her first appearance since her ACL injury in August 2023, made first contact with Baszler and Stark but was brushed off by the pair. On the July 8, 2024 episode of Raw, Shayna Baszler and Zoey Stark aligned themselves with Sonya Deville after weeks of declining the latter's offer, calling themselves Pure Fusion Collective (P.F.C.) while putting the Raw women's roster on notice. On the July 15 episode of Raw, Deville defeated Latino World Order's Zelina Vega in her first match since her return. On the July 29 episode of Raw, P.F.C. teamed up for the first time to defeat Lyra Valkyria, Kayden Carter and Katana Chance. On the August 13 episode of Raw, P.F.C. took out Damage CTRL's Dakota Kai backstage in order to write Kai off television due to her legitimate leg injury. On the following week, Baszler and Stark faced Damage CTRL's Iyo Sky and Kairi Sane and WWE Women's Tag Team Champions The Unholy Union (Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn) in a title match where the champions retained their titles. On the November 11 episode of Raw, Kai returned from injury and Damage CTRL defeated P.F.C. in a six-woman tag team match. In December, Baszler and Stark entered the tournament to crown the inaugural Women's Intercontinental Champion, with the pair being knocked out in the first round and the semifinals respectively.
On February 1, 2025, all three members of P.F.C. entered the Royal Rumble match at the titular pay-per-view with Stark entering at #8, Baszler at #11, and Deville at #13. P.F.C. would team up to eliminate Maxxine Dupri, who entered at #14 only for all three women to be eliminated themselves with Stark being eliminated by Bianca Belair and Naomi, Baszler by Bayley, and Deville by Iyo Sky. On February 7, it was reported that WWE will not be renewing Deville's contract, leaving the future of P.F.C. up in the air.

## Championships and accomplishments

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** WWE Women's Speed Championship #1 Contender Tournament (2025) - Zoey Stark
# Yorkshire Cancer Research

Yorkshire Cancer Research is an English registered charity.
Founded in 1925, Yorkshire Cancer Research has supported projects across the county of Yorkshire for 100 years, mainly in the county's regional universities and teaching hospitals, including Bradford University, Hull University, Leeds University, Sheffield University and University of York and their associated teaching hospitals.
Yorkshire Cancer Research is a member of the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC).
# Lower Pacific Heights, San Francisco

Lower Pacific Heights, also known as Upper Fillmore, is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, between Pacific Heights, the Fillmore District, Laurel Heights, and Japantown. The neighborhood is centered on the commercial corridor of Fillmore Street between California and Post streets, with California Street to the north, Geary Boulevard to the south, Presidio Avenue to the west, and Van Ness Avenue to the east.

## History

Historically, the area was part of the Western Addition. Long a middle-class neighborhood geographically and socially intermediate between Pacific Heights and the Lower Fillmore, the area became wealthier and more upscale with the escalation of San Francisco property values in the 1980s and 1990s, when the designation "Upper Fillmore" fell out of favor and "Lower Pacific Heights" came into increased use.
The neighborhood houses the Madame C.J. Walker Home for Girls and Women building (a San Francisco Designated Landmark), which from 1921 to 1972 it housed a charitable, community and social services organization for single African American woman new to San Francisco, who were not eligible to use the YWCA.
# Lower North Philadelphia

Lower North Philadelphia is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that is immediately north of Center City and below Upper North Philadelphia and can be described as a section of Philadelphia that was designated as a "Model City" target, that has overcome poverty and blight through key developments and a recipient of a federal funded program in 1966 to improve the neighborhood and extend the Center City district north of City Hall. It also contains the Lower North Philadelphia Speculative Housing Historic District along Cecil B. Moore Avenue.
Lower North Philadelphia consists of the Brewerytown, Cecil B. Moore, Cabot, Fairhill, Francisville, Hartranft, Ludlow, North Central, Poplar, Sharswood, Spring Garden, South Lehigh, Stanton, Strawberry Mansion, Yorktown, Fairmount and Northern Liberties neighborhoods.

## Demographics

The demographics of Lower North Philadelphia shows that the area has a population density of 14,736 people per mile with an average household size of 3 and 30% of households had children. There is an 18% annual residential turnover rate with 42% of residents staying for more than 5 years, with an average of 5 years of residency.
# Lower South Providence, Providence, Rhode Island

The Lower South Side (or Lower South Providence) is a neighborhood in the southern part of Providence, Rhode Island. It is bounded by Public Street to the north (bordering Upper South Providence), by Interstate 95 to the south (bordering Washington Park), by Broad Street to the west (bordering Elmwood), and by the Providence River to the east.

## History

The area that is now Lower South Providence was originally pasture land. The area was ceded to the new town of Cranston in 1754 and did not rejoin Providence until 1868. A streetcar was added in 1865 which ran west along Public Street and then south down Ocean Street; it transformed the Lower South Side into Providence's first streetcar suburb. In the next ten years, the streets developed quickly wherever the streetcar ran.
Irish immigrants had lived primarily farther north, but they began to populate the southern part of Lower Providence between 1860 and 1880 as the population of Providence doubled to nearly 105,000. Cranston ceded the Lower South Side (along with Washington Park) back to Providence in 1868.
The Upper South Side attracted industry due to its proximity to downtown, while the Lower South Side had greater access to Narragansett Bay and freight lines via the Port of Providence; metal and jewelry factories, consequently, began to appear. By the 1870s, the majority of housing became duplexes rented by working class tenants. By 1900, the creation of new electrified rail lines gave the area fast transportation and ample affordable housing, and the Lower South Side thrived. Between 1900 and 1950, descendants of the previous-generation immigrants moved into newer, more affluent areas, with the increased prosperity that they had attained.
After 1950, the automobile sentenced the area to a long inexorable decline. The creation of Interstate 95 under the Eisenhower Interstate System required demolition of existing buildings and severed the region's historical connection to the waterfront. Green space was lost as lots and yards were converted into driveways and garages. Street renovation resulted in the loss of tree-lined streetscapes. Residents began to look farther out for newer, more prosperous neighborhoods.

## Government

At the municipal level, almost all of Lower South Providence is within Ward 10, though the very northwestern area of the neighborhood north of Reynolds Avenue/Saratoga Street, between Prairie Avenue and Broad Street, falls within Ward 11. Council President Luis Aponte and Mary Kay Harris represent Wards 10 and 11, respectively, in the Providence City Council. Both are Democrats.