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# Alabama Memorial Preservation Act

The Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017 (Ala. Code § 41-9-230 through 237, AL Act 2017–354, Senate Bill 60) is an act of law in the U.S. state of Alabama which requires local governments to obtain state permission before moving or renaming historically significant buildings and monuments that date back 40 years or longer.
The bill originated as response to a 2015 attempt by the City of Birmingham, whose residents are predominately black (71%), to remove the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument. The law was ultimately unsuccessful in keeping the monument erect, as the monument was taken down by the city in June 2020, during the George Floyd protests.
The bill, unsuccessfully introduced in 2016, was co-sponsored by Republican Representative Mack Butler and Republican Senator Gerald Allen in March–April 2017, and signed into law by Governor Kay Ivey on May 25, 2017. The law created an Alabama Monument Protection Committee, a group of 11 members who will decide whether historic buildings and monuments may be moved or renamed. African-American lawmakers like Juandalynn Givan, Napoleon Bracy Jr. and Hank Sanders were opposed to the bill.

## Enforcement

In 2017, after Birmingham Mayor William A. Bell draped a Confederate memorial with plastic, surrounded it with plywood and stated "This country should in no way tolerate the hatred that the KKK, neo-Nazis, fascists and other hate groups spew", Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall sued Bell and the City over this violation of the law.

## Lawsuit

On January 14, 2019, a circuit judge ruled the law is an unconstitutional violation of the right to free speech, and cannot be enforced. The ruling was put on hold by the Alabama Supreme Court, which subsequently upheld the law unanimously. The penalty for violating the law was fixed at a $25,000 fine. The cities of Birmingham and Mobile paid this fine in 2020 rather than keep their confederate memorials.

## Proposed amendments

In the 2021 legislative session, a proposed amendment to the Act sponsored by Representative Mike Holmes did not pass.
# LaMarcus Hicks

LaMarcus Hicks (born April 15, 1983) is a former American football safety. He was signed by the Detroit Lions as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at Iowa State.
Hicks, a defensive back with Iowa State who played professionally with the Detroit Lions, comes to North Texas after spending last season at Concordia University as the defensive backs coach. Hicks played for McCarney at Iowa State for two seasons and earned first-team All-Big 12 honors in 2005 while leading the conference in interceptions. He earned Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week twice that season. Hicks spent 2011 and 2012 at Truman High School in Michigan as the defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach. In his first season at Truman in 2011, he helped the Cougars improve 15 points per game in scoring defense. In 2012, Truman went 9-2 and won their second playoff game in school history while allowing only 11.2 points per game. Hicks began coaching in 2010 at Rhodes College as wide receivers coach. Three players at the position were selected as All-SCAC. Prior to coaching, Hicks played professionally for the Detroit Lions at defensive back. He spent two seasons with the Lions. Hicks received his bachelor's degree from ISU in 2006. A native of Clarksdale, Mississippi, he and his wife Ashley are the parents of Markia, La’Marcus ll, and two sets of twins, Ashton, Auston, Landon, and Layton Hicks.

## Coaching career

Hicks has coached defensive backs at numerous institutions, and is currently the cornerbacks coach at Northwestern University.
# Horace Greeley (politician)

Horace Albertie Greeley (1858 - 1935) was a Canadian politician, who represented Medicine Hat from 1898 to 1902, and Maple Creek from 1902 to 1905, in the North-West Legislative Assembly.
Born at Hudson, New Hampshire in 1858, he was a relative of American newspaper publisher Horace Greeley. He moved to Canada in 1879, settling first in Fort Walsh and later at Maple Creek. At Maple Creek he was manager of T.C. Power's general store, and later took up ranching.
He was elected to represent Medicine Hat in the 1898 North-West Territories general election, and sat as a supporter of Frederick W. A. G. Haultain's government. When the Medicine Hat riding was divided in the 1902 North-West Territories general election, Greeley ran in the new district of Maple Creek, winning reelection.
When the legislature was dissolved following the creation of the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, Greeley did not run for election to the new Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. He then served as secretary and treasurer of Maple Creek's town government from 1906 to 1909.
# Edward Dunsterville

Commander Edward Dunsterville (1796–1873) was a naval officer and hydrographer.

## Life

Dunsterville, son of Edward Dunsterville, shipowner, was born at Penryn in Cornwall on 2 December 1796. He entered the navy on 17 July 1812 as a first-class volunteer on board the sloop Brisk. On the north coast of Spain he was present in the night attack made in August 1813 on the fortress of San Sebastian, and became a midshipman on 26 September 1813.
As a midshipman and an able seaman he served until 18 November 1815, when on the reduction of the fleet to a peace establishment he was 'finally discharged' from His Majesty's service. Afterwards he was employed as second and chief officer in the merchant service. However, on 9 September 1824 he passed an examination at the Trinity House for a master in the navy, and was appointed second master of Valorous. As master of the Bustard he was stationed in the West Indies, where he made many useful observations, which were duly recorded at the admiralty; afterwards in England he passed examinations and received certificates of his practical knowledge as a pilot.
On 25 March 1833, on the nomination of the hydrographer of the admiralty, he became master of the surveying vessel Thunderer, with orders to complete the survey of the Mosquito coast, and remained in that employment until 27 November 1835, when he was invalided from the effects of his servitude of fifteen years on the West India station. As a lieutenant on board the Cambridge, he took part in the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria, and assisted in blockading the Egyptian fleet at Alexandria, and was awarded the Syrian medals.
On 19 April 1842 he became one of the hydrographer's assistants at the admiralty, Whitehall, where he remained until 31 March 1870, when he was superannuated at the age of 73, on two-thirds of his salary, namely, £400 per annum. During the twenty-eight years of his residence at the admiralty he had to attend to the issuing of charts to the fleet, to keep an account of the printing, mounting, and issue of charts and books, to report to the hydrographer on questions of pilotage, and to prepare catalogues of charts and the annual lighthouse lists. Of the latter he revised and saw through the press 102 volumes respecting the lights and lighthouses in all parts of the world. Between 1860 and 1877 he produced the Admiralty Catalogue of Charts, Plans, Views, and Sailing Directions. He also brought out The Indian Directory, or Directory for Sailing to and from the East Indies. By James Horsburgh, F.R.S. Corrected and revised by Commander E. Dunsterville,’ 7th ed. London, 1859, 2 vols., and 8th ed. 1864, 2 vols.
He died at 32 St. Augustine's Road, Camden Square, London, 11 March 1873. He was twice married and left children.
# Victor Ratautas

Victor Ratautas (born 10 March 1934 – 30 June 1996), was football player, who played as a centre-back.

## Personal life

Of Lithuanian descent (and sometimes called as Victor Lituano), Victor was known at the time for his virility and his man-to-man marking ability, being considered one of Pelé's greatest opponents. In São Paulo FC, played alongside Mauro Ramos and Nilton de Sordi, but unlike his teammates, he was never called up to the Brazil national team in an official tournament.

## Death

Victor died in the city of Santo André on 30 June 1996.

## Honours
### São Paulo

* Small Club World Cup: 1955
* Campeonato Paulista: 1957
# Now This

Now This is an album by American jazz bassist Gary Peacock recorded in 2014 and released on the ECM label. It features a trio with pianist Marc Copland and drummer Joey Baron.

## Reception

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| The Guardian | |
| All About Jazz | |
| The Sydney Morning Herald | |
AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars and the review by Thom Jurek stated "Now This is not only an excellent portrait of the bassist in winter -- his abilities undiminished -- but also an exercise in the possibilities of the piano trio in the 21st century". The Guardian's John Fordham said "They don’t play like a regular jazz-piano trio, often preferring tentative exchanges of clipped motifs and enigmatic queries to busy collective stretches or straight swing, and with considerable space for meditative individual statements. ...For those who know and love the participants, And Now This is captivating. Newcomers might need to give it a little quality time first". On All About Jazz Karl Ackermann said, "There is not a wasted note to be found on Now This where the compositions—some re-worked, others, new—strongly suggest a portentous air. Peacock, Copland and Baron expertly develop the pieces in that light so that, despite the overriding thoughtfulness, it is never certain in which direction the journey is moving. Now This is an thought-provoking collection rendered by brilliant performers"
In JazzTimes, Thomas Conrad wrote "Now This contains seven Peacock tunes, old ones like “Moor” and “Requiem” and pretty new ones like “Christa.” All are like passing revelations from a Peacock solo: spare, self-contained figures of mysterious expectancy. In his haunting high basslines, melodies linger, dissolve and reappear. As for Copland, he is the right pianist for an album about atmosphere and mood. But his quietude is deceptive. His scattered fragments and his counterintuitive chords create continuous subtle diversions. Baron is also subtle and provocative, and essential as a colorist". The Sydney Morning Herald's John Shand noted "Peacock's playing has lost none of its vigour or sinuousness, and his bass has been magnificently recorded. Copland's distinctive approach mingles effervescence and enigma, and Baron plays with something of the same joyous naivety with which Henri Rousseau painted".

## Track listing

All compositions by Gary Peacock except where noted.
* "Gaia" - 6:41
* "Shadows" - 5:02
* "This" - 5:44
* "And Now" - 4:34
* "Esprit de Muse" (Joey Baron) - 6:16
* "Moor" - 5:17
* "Noh Blues" (Marc Copland) - 5:48
* "Christa" - 4:44
* "Vignette" - 4:56
* "Gloria's Step" (Scott LaFaro) - 3:59
* "Requiem" - 4:47
* Recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in July 2014

## Personnel

* Gary Peacock — double bass
* Marc Copland — piano
* Joey Baron — drums
# Front Page Woman

Front Page Woman is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay by Laird Doyle, Lillie Hayward and Roy Chanslor based on the novel Women Are Bum Newspapermen by Richard Macauley.

## Plot

Ellen Garfield refuses to marry fellow reporter Curt Devlin until he admits she is as good at her craft as any man. The two work for rival newspapers, and their ongoing efforts to better each other eventually leads to Ellen getting fired when Curt tricks her into misreporting the verdict of a murder trial. The tables are turned when she scoops him by getting the real perpetrator, Inez Cordoza, to confess to the crime. Forced to admit Ellen is a good reporter, he finally wins her hand.

## Cast

* Bette Davis as Ellen Garfield
* George Brent as Curt Devlin
* Roscoe Karns as Toots O'Grady
* Wini Shaw as Inez Cordoza
* Walter Walker as Judge Hugo Rickard
* J. Carrol Naish as Robert Cardoza
* June Martel as Olive Wilson
* J. Farrell MacDonald as Hallohan
* Dorothy Dare as Mae LaRue
* I. Stanford Jolley (uncredited; his first acting role)
* George Chandler as Reporter
* Adrian Morris as Guard
* Miki Morita as Fuji (billed as Mike Morita)

## Production

The film's working title was Women Are Born Newspapermen. The plots of the 1937 release Back in Circulation, allegedly based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns, and the 1938 Torchy Blane film Blondes at Work are very similar to Front Page Woman.
The Warner Bros. release was one of three 1935 films co-starring Bette Davis and George Brent. The two were paired on-screen a total of thirteen times.
This was the fourth collaboration for Davis and director Michael Curtiz. The two worked together a total of seven times.

## Critical reception

The New York Times said, "The three writers who adapted it . . . did a clever script job and Michael Curtiz directed at a brisk pace. Add to that a cast with a neat sense of comedy and you have an excellent tonic for the mid-July doldrums."
Variety said, "[It] lacks authenticity and is so far fetched it'll hand newsscribes around the country a constant run of ripples. But it's light and has some funny lines and situations."
# Grochów, Łódź Voivodeship

Grochów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowe Ostrowy, within Kutno County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-east of Nowe Ostrowy, 10 km (6 mi) north-west of Kutno, and 57 km (35 mi) north of the regional capital Łódź.
# G.D. Santa Cruz de Alvarenga

Grupo Desportivo Santa Cruz de Alvarenga is a Portuguese association football club based in Arouca. It was founded in 1977, and currently competes in the Campeonato de Portugal, the fourth tier of Portuguese football.

## Notable players

* Isidro Pitta (2017–2018)
* Sahil Tavora (2018–2019)
# Ottobiano

Ottobiano is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 45 km (28 mi) southwest of Milan and about 25 km (16 mi) west of Pavia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,168 and an area of 24.5 km$^2$ (9.5 sq mi).
Ottobiano borders the following municipalities: Ferrera Erbognone, Lomello, San Giorgio di Lomellina, Tromello, Valeggio.

## Notable people

* Victorio Codovilla (1894–1970), communist politician
# Anne Lynch (artist)

Anne Lynch (born Melbourne 1956) is an Australian artist, working primarily as a draftsperson and printmaker in the genre of Outsider art. Her artwork has been shown internationally and is represented in the Self-Taught and Outsider Art Research Collection at the Callan Park Gallery for Self-Taught and Outsider Art, University of Sydney. Since 1995, Lynch has been a dedicated studio artist at Arts Project Australia in Northcote, an organization that supports the creativity and artwork of artists with an intellectual disability. Lynch's figurative pastel works evoke a sense of isolation and melancholy.

## Career, themes and style

In Lynch’s pastel works, she depicts lone figures over planes of colour. The Arts Project Australia website describes Lynch’s works as ‘fleeting moments in time, [which] carry an air of nostalgia and memoir.’ In 2013 Lynch presented her first solo exhibition at the Arts Project Australia Gallery and has been included in numerous group exhibitions, both locally and internationally, notably ‘Renegades: Outsider Art’, The Arts Centre Gold Coast, Surfers Paradise in 2014 and ‘Outsider Art Fair’, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York City in 2005. As a well-known figure in Australian Outsider Art, Lynch's works are represented in collection at the National Gallery of Australia and in the Stuart Purves Collection. Lynch has further exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria, with curator Anonda Bell noting in the exhibition catalogue Lynch's interest in aestheticising sport, writing, "Anne Lynch’s footballers and gymnasts are rendered simply in beaming colours mirroring the joy of the sporting experience."

## Solo exhibitions

In 2013, Anne Lynch had a solo exhibition at the Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

## Selected group exhibitions

The artwork of Ann Lynch has been included in several group exhibitions, including:
* Annual Gala Exhibition, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne (2015)
* Renegades: Outsider Art, The Arts Centre Gold Coast, Surfers Paradise, QLD (2014)
* Classic Albums, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns, QLD (2013)
* National Gallery of Victoria 150th event, Melbourne (2011)
* BloodLines: Art and the Horse, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria (2008)
* Outsider Art Fair, New York, United States. Hosted by the Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York (2005).
* Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, National Gallery of Australia Travelling exhibition (2005).
* Lynch was included in the 2nd Annual Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art, Chicago, United States, Hosted by the Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York (2004)
* Art of the Sacred Heart, Arts Project Australia Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide (2001).
* Arterial - Artists from Arts Project Australia, Paralympic Arts Festival, Sydney Opera House (2000)
* Connected, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong (1999)
* Centre d’Art Differencié, Liége, Belgium (1996)
* Vita Gallery, Portland, Oregon (1995).

## Collections

Lynch’s work is represented in private collections and in the National Gallery of Australia collection (Accession No: NGA 2002.431.93) and the Stuart Purves Collection.
# Lamia (Basque mythology)

The lamia (or lamina) (plural: lamiak or laminak) is a siren or nereid-like creature in Basque mythology. Lamiak are typically portrayed as living in and around rivers. They are depicted as beautiful, long-haired women with webbed duck feet, usually found at the river shore brushing their hair with a golden comb and seducing men.
Mythology in coastal areas includes itsaslamiak, a variety of lamiak who live in the sea and have fish-like tails, similar to a mermaid.

## Beliefs

Basque mythology depicts lamiak as generous, aiding those who give them presents by helping them at work. For example, if a farmer were to leave food for them at the river shore, they would eat it at night and in exchange finish ploughing his field. In some places, bridges were believed to have been built at night by lamiak, for example at Ebrain (Bidarray, Lower Navarre), Azalain (Andoain, Gipuzkoa), Urkulu (Leintz-Gatzaga, Gipuzkoa), Liginaga-Astüe (Labourd).
In other myths, lamiak must leave if the bridge that they were building at night remains unfinished at cockcrow. People believed that lamiak had left a river if a stone in the bridge was missing. Other beliefs claim that most lamiak disappeared when men built small churches in the forest.
Lamiak are also believed to be found on the other side of rainbows, where they are combing their hair. It is said that when the sunlight strikes their hair, the rainbow opens.
Mythology also occasionally describes male lamiak. In those stories, they are described as strong and are attributed with the creation of dolmens at night. It is also said that they can enter a house at night when its inhabitants are sleeping. They are given different names: Maideak, Mairiak, Mairuak, Intxixuak (in Oiartzun, Gipuzkoa), Saindi Maidi (in Lower Navarre).
Many toponyms relate to lamiak, including Lamikiz (Markina), Laminaputzu (in Zeanuri), Lamitegi (in Bedaio), Lamirain (in Arano), Lamusin (in Sare), Lamiñosin (in Ataun).
# Commercial Bank of Syria

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The Commercial Bank of Syria (Arabic: المصرف التجاري السوري) is a fully government owned bank in Syria. It is the largest commercial bank in Syria with its headquarters in Damascus. The Commercial Bank accounts for the highest assets share in the banking sector, amounting to 37% of all bank assets at the end of 2017.
The bank offers commercial banking services including long-term loans in Syrian pounds, armored car service, and collections services. The bank has dozens of branches and ATM's throughout Syria.

## History

In 1966, the state achieved complete ownership of commercial banking in Syria by merging all existing commercial banks into a single consolidated Commercial Bank of Syria. In 1974, the Commercial Bank incorporated in Lebanon the Syrian-Lebanese Commercial Bank, in which it owns 85%. Until the 2010s, the Commercial Bank was the only bank in Syria allowed to deal with foreign currency, and allowed and able to finance foreign trade.
Following the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, in August 2011, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S Department of the Treasury designated the bank as Specially Designated Nationals. OFAC designated the bank and its Lebanese subsidiary under the authority of Executive Order 13382 (signed on June 29, 2005), which is aimed at "disrupting the activities of weapons of mass destruction proliferators and their sources of support". It banned U.S. banks and their overseas subsidiaries from maintaining a correspondent account with the Commercial Bank of Syria and required them to conduct due diligence that ensured that the Commercial Bank of Syria was not circumventing sanctions through their business dealings with them. The European Union also imposed sanctions on the bank in October 2011 with its assets frozen.
# Togolese passport

Togolese passports are issued to Togolese citizens to travel outside Togo. Togolese citizens can travel to member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) without a passport, national ID cards are sufficient.

## Physical properties

* Surname
* Given names
* Nationality Togolese
* Date of birth
* Sex
* Place of birth
* Date of Expiry
* Passport number

## Languages

The data page/information page is printed in French and English.
# Algernon Ransome

Major General Algernon Lee Ransome, CB, DSO & Bar, MC (29 August 1883 – 1969) was a British Army officer.

## Military career

Algernon Lee Ransome was born in the United States and was privately educated before going to the United Kingdom where, after attending and later graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Dorsetshire Regiment on 19 December 1903. He spent the first few years of his military career serving his regiment's first battalion.
Ransome served with distinction during the First World War. He became commanding officer of the 7th (Service) Battalion, Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) in 1916 and commanded it during the German spring offensive in March 1918. He went on to command the 170th (2/1st North Lancashire) Brigade from September 1918 until the Armistice of 11 November 1918, which ended the war. During the war he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) with Bar and, in 1915, the Military Cross. He was also mentioned in despatches six times, and rose from the rank of captain to brigadier general.
As a Regular Army officer, Ransome remained in the army during the interwar period, attending the Staff College, Camberley in the first post-war course in 1919. He then served as a staff officer with Aldershot Command and then at the War Office from 1920 to 1925. After marrying in 1927 he served in Australia at the Royal Military College, Duntroon as an instructor from 1927 to 1928 before returning to England and Aldershot Command, this time as an Assistant Adjutant General, holding this post from 1931 until 1933.
After that, he became commander of the 2nd Indian Infantry Brigade from 1933 to 1935 and retired from the army in 1938. He was recalled to service to become General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the newly raised 46th Infantry Division in October 1939, a month after the beginning of the Second World War, before retiring again in December 1939. He later commanded the 10th (Romsey) Battalion of the Hampshire Home Guard from 1942 to 1944. Romsey was where he spent his final years.