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# John Christmas Beckwith

John Christmas Beckwith (25 December 1759 – 3 June 1809) was an English organist and composer.

## Life

Beckwith was born in Norwich on 25 December 1759, son of Edward Beckwith (1734–1793). His father and uncle were lay clerks at Norwich Cathedral. He was for many years pupil and assistant successively of the organist and composer William Hayes, and his son Philip Hayes, at Magdalen College, Oxford.
As an organist he took very high rank in his day. He had many pupils, including the organist Zechariah Buck, the composer Stephen Codman, the singer Thomas Vaughan and the writer on music Edward Taylor, who said of him: "I have never heard Dr. Beckwith's equal upon the organ either in this county or in Germany. … Neither is this my opinion only, but that of every competent judge who has heard him".
In Norwich, Beckwith was much involved in "musical meetings", usually held in St Peter Mancroft; they supported charities, some of which he was associated with as a founder.
In 1794 he was appointed organist of St Peter Mancroft. He took both the Mus. Bac. and Mus. Doc. degrees at Oxford in 1803, and in 1808 succeeded Thomas Garland as organist of Norwich Cathedral.
Beckwith died of a stroke on 3 June 1809, and was buried at St Peter Mancroft.

## Family

He was married to Mary Elizabeth; they had three daughters and three sons. His eldest son John Charles Beckwith succeeded him as organist of Norwich Cathedral.
There is some doubt as to whether Beckwith was christened John Christmas, or whether his second name was only a nickname. In the works published by him in his lifetime he is always described as John Beckwith, but in the register of his burial the name is stated as "John Christmas Beckwith, married man, an organist of this parish", and it is by this name that he is generally known.

## Compositions

Beckwith's compositions are not numerous. They include:
* Six Voluntaries for Organ or Harpsichord (1780)
* Six Anthems
* The First Verse of every Psalm of David with an Ancient or Modern Chant (1808), regarded as his most important work. The chants are by composers from Tudor times to his own day.
# Thomas Lucas Duerden

Thomas Lucas Duerden (1898–1969) was an English cathedral organist, who served in Blackburn Cathedral.

## Background

Thomas Lucas Duerden was born in Blackburn in 1898.
He served in the Royal Navy towards the end of World War I.
He was music master of Hutton Grammar School, Preston 1932 to 1947, and Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, 1938 to 1963.
He was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal School of Church Music in 1964.

## Career

Organist of:
* St. John's Church, Blackburn, 1919–1939
* Blackburn Cathedral, 1939–1964
Cultural offices :
| Preceded byHerman Brearley | Organist and Master of the Choristers of Blackburn Cathedral 1939–1964 | Succeeded byJohn Bertalot |
# Ascension Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Oakland

The Ascension Greek Orthodox Cathedral is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral church in Oakland, California. It is located at 4700 Lincoln Avenue.

## History

The original community, formed in 1917, worshiped in a rented hall until it built the first Greek Orthodox church in the East Bay. The Assumption Greek Orthodox Church (in Greek, Κοίμησις τῆς Θεοτόκου), opened on May 21, 1921, on Brush Street in Downtown Oakland. By 1960, the community, having outgrown its facilities, relocated to the present site in the Oakland hills and was re-dedicated to the Analypsis (the Ascension of Our Savior), on December 11, 1960.
The church was elevated to the status of a cathedral in February 1992. The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension has evolved from a predominantly immigrant society into one that now spans six generations, with over 1,200 parishioners, making it the largest Greek Orthodox community in the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco.

## Icons and events

The cathedral has a distinctive collection of Orthodox iconography. The icon of Jesus the Pantocrator (or Almighty) is the largest Orthodox icon of Jesus in the Americas. Reverend Father Thomas J. Paris served as Ascension's pastor from 1971 until his retirement nearly four decades later. Reverend Father Tom Zaferes is now the pastor and dean of the cathedral. A new chapel, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, is currently being constructed on the church grounds.
The Cathedral hosts an annual Greek food and culture festival, traditionally held the weekend after Mother's Day, on the church grounds. One of the largest festivals of its kind in the United States, the Oakland Greek Festival offers a wide variety of Greek foods, cultural exhibitions, Greek dancing, and live music.
# Maria Agnès Ribera Garau

Maria Agnès Ribera Garau (Palma, 1790 - Palma, 1861) was a Spanish writer, liberal and former nun from Majorca.

## Life

Born illegitimate, she was the only child of Jerome Ignacio Ribera, heir to a wealthy merchant family. Since her birth, the family orchestrated a conspiracy to steal her inheritance and her life, by forcing Ribera to become a nun. In 1806, her father decided that his 11-year-old daughter should go to a convent, explicitly against her will. In 1820, she managed to leave the convent, protected by the law of secularization. But with the return of religious absolutism, the family and the church conspired for Ribera to return to the convent. She went into exile in France and began a long process to cancel her family and the church's power over her. After fighting against the heirs who wanted her inheritance, and being imprisoned in Madrid, the Holy See gave Ribera her freedom and had her vows annulled when her case was heard by the Vatican Court. She then married her former lover and devoted herself to writing books. Ribera left many unpublished manuscripts, including an 1833 book, which was the first known travel book written by a woman in Mallorca, and probably in Spain. In addition to her writing, she supported liberal views and promoted women's education.

## Selected works

* Medios poderosos para la perfecta enmienda de la vida o entera y durable conversión. Opúsculo entresacado de los venerables escritos del glorioso Obispo San Francisco de Sales; con otros varios ejercicios conducentes a asegurar la salvación etern (1847)
* Viage que yo María Inés Ribera y Garau hice á Valencia, Madrid, Roma y otras capitales extrangeras, y noticia de los monumentos, maravillas y curiosidades que observé en ellas (manuscrit, 1833)
# Loai Al Fakir

Loai Al Fakir is a real estate professional and the Chief Executive Officer of Provident Estate, a real estate brokerage firm based in Dubai. He established the company in 2008. The firm provides property management and brokerage services.

## Biography

Loai Al Fakir began his career in real estate after relocating from Cyprus to Dubai in 2005. He initially worked with PRV2, the real estate sales division of Abyaar Property Developers.
In 2008, he established Provident Estate, which offers an online platform for property searches and provides information about communities and real estate regulations in Dubai.
In 2015, he founded Primestay, a company that focuses on holiday home rentals. In 2017, he joined One Broker Group as a managing partner and later became its CEO.

## Career Highlights

* In June 2023, Provident Real Estate launched and sold Habtoor Tower, a freehold property on Sheikh Zayed Road.
* In December 2023, Provident Estate facilitated the sale of a penthouse on Palm Jumeirah for $136 million.

## Contributions

Loai Al Fakir has been involved in establishing several subsidiaries of Provident Estate, including:
* Primestay: A company offering holiday home rental services.
* Provident Property Management: Providing property management services.
* Premier Finance: Assisting with financial solutions for real estate transactions.
He has also collaborated with major developers and property portals to streamline real estate processes in Dubai.
# Designers' Challenge

Designers' Challenge is a show that aired on HGTV in the United States. In each episode, three interior designers make presentations to a homeowner, who chooses one design to use in the house. It was hosted by Chris Harrison.
Landscapers' Challenge is a spin-off that deals with outdoor landscaping.
# Frederick B. Ogden

Frederick Beasley Ogden (July 20, 1827 - November 1, 1893) was an American attorney, jurist, and politician who served as the eighth Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey from 1865 to 1867.

## Biography

He was born on July 20, 1827, in Paterson, New Jersey. He was the son of New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Elias B. D. Ogden. He was the grandson of United States Senator and New Jersey Governor Aaron Ogden.
Ogden graduated from Princeton University in 1847 and was admitted to the bar in New Jersey in 1850.
He opened his office in Hoboken, New Jersey in December 1853. On July 4, 1865, he joined the Society of the Cincinnati. Her married Jane Millen Ford.
He served as the eighth Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey from 1865 to 1867 when he replaced Charles T. Perry. He was succeeded by Frederick W. Bohnstedt. He then served as a judge in the District Court for Hoboken.
He died on November 1, 1893, from an "attack of paralysis".
# 1880 United States elections

Elections occurred during the Third Party System, and elected the members of the 47th United States Congress. Republicans retained the presidency and took control of the House. An unclear partisan situation prevailed in the Senate. As the first presidential election after the end of Reconstruction, this election saw the first occurrence of the Democratic Party sweeping the Southern United States; the party would carry an overwhelming majority of Southern states well into the 20th century.
In the presidential election, Republican Representative James Garfield from Ohio defeated Democratic General Winfield Hancock. Though Garfield won a clear majority of electoral votes, he won the popular vote by the smallest margin in history. Incumbent one-term Republican president Rutherford B. Hayes declined to seek re-election. Garfield emerged as the dark horse Republican nominee following the 1880 Republican National Convention, prevailing on the 36th ballot over former president Ulysses S. Grant, Maine senator James G. Blaine, and Ohio senator John Sherman. Hancock took the nomination at the 1880 Democratic National Convention on the second ballot, defeating Delaware senator Thomas F. Bayard and several other candidates. Garfield was the first sitting member of Congress to be elected president, and remains the only sitting member of the House to win a presidential election.
Republicans picked up several seats in the House, taking a majority of the chamber for the first time since the 1874 elections.
In the Senate, Republicans made small gains at the expense of the Democrats, but neither party had a majority due to the presence of an independent senator and a Readjuster senator. The Republicans and Readjusters ultimately agreed to share power, along with the Republican vice president.
# M Hamid

M Hamid (Bengali: এম হামিদ) is a Bangladeshi dramatist and theatre personality. He served as the director general of Bangladesh Television from March 2012 until April 2014. He is a former chief executive officer of RTV, a Bangladeshi satellite television channel. He served as the founding president of the theatrical group Natyachakra.
Hamid was awarded 2018 Shilpakala Padak in dramatics by the government of Bangladesh.

## Early life

Hamid was a student of Jagannath College. He served as a Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) cultural secretary. He debuted theatrical acting in the play Shurjamahal by Kalyan Mitra. He, along with his friends, established the theatrical group Natyachakra in September 1972. As of 2004, he had directed eight plays for Natyachakra.

## Career

Hamid worked at Bangladesh Television from 1980 until his retirement in 2006. He served as the director of National Institute of Mass-communication (NIMCO). In 2011, he joined as a managing director of Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (FDC) and went on to become its director general until he left the position in 2012.
Hamid served as the chairperson and president of Bangladesh Group Theatre Federation (BGTF). He was an executive member of Shammilito Shangskritik Jote (SSJ).
Hamid was awarded Badruddin Hossain Memorial Award by Padatik Natya Sangsad.

## Personal life

Hamid is married to Falguni Hamid (née Roy Chowdhury), a retired television and stage actress, since 24 December 1978. Together they have a daughter, Tonima Hamid.
Among Hamid's five brothers, K. M. Khalid is a former State Minister of Cultural Affairs and actor Mahmud Sajjad (d. 2021).
# Maiestas lactipennis

Maiestas lactipennis is a species of bug from the Cicadellidae family that can be found in Liberia. It was formerly placed within Recilia, but a 2009 revision moved it to Maiestas.

## Description

The species are yellow coloured with black head.
# Clarkson Golden Knights

The Clarkson Golden Knights are composed of 20 teams representing Clarkson University in intercollegiate athletics, including men and women's alpine skiing, basketball, cross country, ice hockey, lacrosse, nordic skiing, soccer, and swimming. Men's sports include baseball and golf. Women's sports include softball and volleyball. The Golden Knights compete in the NCAA Division III and are members of the Liberty League for all sports except ice hockey, which competes in NCAA Division I, as a member of ECAC Hockey.

## Teams

| Men's sports | Women's sports |
| Alpine skiing | Alpine skiing |
| Baseball | Basketball |
| Basketball | Cross country |
| Cross Country | Ice hockey |
| Golf | Lacrosse |
| Ice hockey | Nordic skiing |
| Lacrosse | Soccer |
| Nordic Skiing | Softball |
| Soccer | Swimming & diving |
| Swimming & diving | Volleyball |

## History

While Clarkson is an NCAA Division III school, both the men's and women's ice hockey teams compete in Division I, with both teams playing in the ECAC. The men's team is a traditional power in the ECAC. They have won 6 ECAC Tournament Championships, most recently in 2019. Clarkson's most recent NCAA tournament was as the number three seed in the 2008 NCAA East regional, where they knocked off St. Cloud State 2–1 to advance to the second round. The Golden Knights were then defeated by national number one seed, Michigan, 2–0.
The women's team is far younger, beginning play in 2003, than the men's team, although they too have become an ECAC power. The team has appeared in every tournament since entering the ECAC in 2004 and have appeared in three NCAA tournaments, most recently winning the 2018 edition, the third NCAA title won by the school, the third NCAA ice hockey title won by a school in St. Lawrence County, and the third Division I NCAA championship won by a school from the North Country.
Other Division III varsity teams compete in the Liberty League conference and include baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's golf, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's soccer, softball, men's and women's swimming, and women's volleyball.
The men and women's alpine skiing and nordic skiing teams compete in the MacConnell Division of the Eastern Collegiate Ski Conference (ECSC), within the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA). They are top contenders almost every year within their division and even conference, and have consistently qualified for the annual USCSA National Championships numerous times.
Other non-varsity clubs include men's and women's ice hockey, men's lacrosse, men's and women's rugby union, men's soccer, men's bowling, combined men's and women's crew, and ultimate frisbee. Clarkson's combined men's and women's club racquetball team won the Division II title at the USRA National Tournament in 2005. In 2010, the school started a club football team.
"The Golden Knight" is the university's hockey mascot, which can be seen at hockey games waving the Clarkson flag.
# Olga Herrera-MacBryde

Olga Herrera-MacBryde (1937–2007) was an Ecuadorian-American botanist and international conservationist.

## Early life

Olga Sabina Herrera Carvajal was born in 1937 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. She studied at the Colegio Normal Rita Lecumberry, following which she taught Spanish, Ecuadorian history and natural sciences in primary and high school. In 1963, she obtained a secondary school teaching certificate from the University of Guayaquil, and the following year, an undergraduate degree in botany. She then studied at the University of Houston and Saint Louis University, from which she received a master's degree in biology.
Herrera met her husband, Bruce MacBryde, in St. Louis.

## Career

Herrera-MacBryde worked at the Missouri Botanical Garden on taxonomy, before joining the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador at Quito, where she chaired the biology department between 1970–72. She co-founded a herbarium at the university, depositing nearly 1500 collections. From 1972–75, she moved to Canada, where she participated in the first comprehensive coverage of the wild plants of British Columbia. She also co-authored a book on Central American weeds.
In 1976, Herrera-MacBryde represented Ecuador at the first conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. She worked at the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, DC, and the World Wildlife Fund's US arm.
She also worked at the education programme of the Charles Darwin Research Station in the Galapagos Islands.
Herrera-MacBryde joined the Smithsonian's botany department as an editor and scientific coordinator, specialising in the botany of the region from Mexico through South America. She was a co-author of the book Centres of Plant Diversity. She ran environmental training courses and monitored the Smithsonian's biodiversity programme between 1995–2004. She edited a book on the Beni Biosphere Reserve in Bolivia, and reported on the Mayan forests of Mexico and Central America.

## Later life

Herrera-MacBryde died in Fairfax, Virginia, from lung cancer, on April 22, 2007.

## Honors

Two plant species of Ecuador are named in her honour, as well as the Psychotria olgae, a tree species in the Chagres National Park in Panama.

## Selected publications

* Lewis, W.H.; Herrera-MacBryde, O. (1969). "Flora of Panama. Part VI. Family 96. Polygalaceae". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 56 (1): 9–28. doi:10.2307/2395163. JSTOR 2395163.
* Davis, S.D.; Heywood, V.H.; Herrera-MacBryde, O.; Villa-Lobos, J.; Hamilton, A.C., eds. (1997). Centres of Plant Diversity: A Guide and Strategy for Their Conservation, 3: The Americas. WWF and IUCN.
* Herrera-MacBryde, Olga; Dallmeier, Francisco; MacBryde, Bruce; Comiskey, James A.; Miranda, Carmen, eds. (2000). Biodiversity, conservation and management in the region of the Beni Biological Station Biosphere Reserve, Bolivia. Smithsonian Institution.
# Francisco Herrera Luque

Francisco José Herrera Luque (Caracas, 14 December 1927 – Caracas, 15 April, 1991) was a Venezuelan writer, psychiatrist and diplomat. He is the author of several well-known historical novels, including: Boves, el Urogallo (1972), Los Amos del Valle (1979) and La Luna de Fausto (1983).
He was the son of Francisco Herrera Guerrero and María Luisa Luque Carvallo. In 1956, he married Maria Margarita Terán Austria, with whom he had five children. Herrera Luque studied in the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) and later at the University of Salamanca (1952), where he obtained his title of physician. In Madrid he specialized in psychiatry, a field on which he wrote several scientific papers. His PhD thesis served as basis for his book: Los Viajeros de Indias (1961), about the psychopathic loads left on the Venezuelan population by the Spanish conquistadors. His interest in understanding the origins of the personalities of Latin America people took him to the study of heritage and genetics.
Herrera Luque founded the department of psychiatry of the UCV, becoming full professor. He was appointed ambassador of Venezuela in Mexico in the mid-1970s. As writer and novelist, his historical work is based on accurate and documented research. His late books: Los Cuatro reyes de la baraja, Bolívar en vivo, 1998 and El Vuelo del Alcatraz, were published posthumously.
During the final years of his life and after his death his works gained great popularity, making him one of the best-selling writers of Venezuela. His success resulted from the combination of typical Venezuelan stories with historical facts; in his works, Herrera Luque looked beyond the official history of the country and created a parallel narrative to it. Francisco Herrera Luque died in Caracas from a heart attack on 15 April 1991.
In 1992 the Francisco Herrera Luque Foundation was created. In 2010 the novel Boves, el Urogallo, was adapted into a film by director Luis Alberto Lamata, with the title of Taita Boves.
# Parabola Films

Parabola Films is a Montreal-based Canadian cinema production company founded by Sarah Spring and Selin Murat, a documentary filmmaker. Parabola Films focuses on the production of videos which demonstrate the role of cinema in social change. The company collaborates with other film-making organizations who emphasize storytelling.

## History

Parabola Films' offering "Ariel" was shown at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, and at the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal 2013. It was funded by a grant from the Rogers Documentary and Cable Network Fund. It also aired on the CBC Television network.
Jeppe on a Friday was funded through IndieGoGO, filmed in Johannesburg with the collaboration of eight small local filmmakers, and shown at theBeijing International Film Festival.
To film A St-Henri le 26 Aout in just one day, sixteen filmmakers worked together, under the direction of Shannon Walsh of Parabola Films. The film was screened at the Durban International Film Festival.
When the Trumpet Sounds was funded by grants from the Canadian Media Fund.
In 2015, Parabola Films co-produced, along with Galaxia 311, Simon Hernandez’sfilm Pinilla, which is combines fictional and documentary aspects. Parabola also produced, in collaboration with Radio Canada, the film Nuestro Monte Luna, which screened at the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto.
In 2017, Parabola Films secured funding from the Theatrical Documentary Program, sponsored by Telefilm Canada and Rogers Group, for its upcoming film Billy. Also that year, Parabola filmmaker Sarah Chadwick created a documentary 1999, about suicides at a high school. It was filmed in Moncton, New Brunswick, and was funded by Eurimages.
In 2018, Parabola Films completed another documentary, Sweet Dreams for Chiyo, about a young girl living with diabetes.

## Collaborators
### Founders

* Sarah Spring - producer
* Selin Murat - producer

### Directors

* Shannon Walsh - director
* Laura Bari - director
* Pablo Alvarez-Mesa - director

## Films

| Date | Film | Director |
| 2011 | A St-Henri le 26 Aout | Shannon Walsh |
| 2012 | Jeppe on a Friday | Shannon Walsh and Arya Lalloo |
| 2013 | Ariel | Laura Bari |
| | When the Trumpet Sounds | |
| 2011 | Little Scream:The Lamb | Shannon Walsh |