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# A21, Inc.

A21, Inc. (stylized as a21) was a licenser and distributor of digital images.

## Services

a21 aggregated visual content from photographers, photography agencies, archives, libraries, and private collections, and licensed that content for its customers. Those included advertising and design agencies, publishing and media companies, in-house communication departments and outside corporate communications firms, small and home office businesses, and the general public. a21 sold its services directly and through a global network of 150 distributors in over 100 countries, and through print advertising, direct mail, Web mail, and telemarketing.

## History

Formed as an investment company in 2000, a21 acquired the stock photography agency SuperStock in 2004. They moved into SuperStock's headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida, and used SuperStock as a vehicle for further expansion. In 2005 a21 acquired Ingram Publishing Ltd., a UK-based provider of subscription and royalty-free images. as well as vector graphics and fonts, vehicle outline templates, and print price guides. The following year they acquired ArtSelect, an Iowa-based provider of online technology and fulfillment infrastructure for retailers in the custom framed art and wall décor market.

## Timeline

In 2007, it formed an agreement with the image search engine company Pixsy.
In late 2007 the company announced plans to launch a new royalty-free-only brand named MediaMagnet. However, this brand was not successful, and MediaMagnet images became available for sale only through SuperStock.
In 2008, Sears announced that it would use ArtSelect to allow shoppers to order art and custom frames online.
By the end of 2008, a21 had declared bankruptcy under Chapter 11. Its $4.5 million in assets were auctioned off in January 2009 and the company was liquidated.

## Executives

* John Z. Ferguson, Chief Executive Officer
* LaDuane Clifton, Chief Financial Officer
# Prophysa

Prophysa is a genus of freshwater snails, an aquatic gastropod molluscs from Mesozoic.

## Species

Species within the genus Prophysa include:
* Prophysa bristovii (De Loriol, 1865)
# 1994 State of the Union Address

The 1994 State of the Union Address was given by the 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton, on January 25, 1994, at 9:00 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 103rd United States Congress. It was Clinton's first State of the Union Address and his second speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was House speaker Tom Foley, accompanied by Vice President Al Gore, in his capacity as the president of the Senate.
The president discussed the federal budget deficit, taxes, defense spending, crime, foreign affairs, education, the economy, free trade, the role of government, campaign finance reform, welfare reform, and promoting the Clinton health care plan. President Clinton threatened to veto any legislation that did not guarantee every American private health insurance. He proposed for policies to fight crime: a three strikes law for repeat violent offenders; 100,000 more police officers on the streets; expand gun control to further prevent criminals from being armed and ban assault weapons; additional support for drug treatment and education.
The president began the speech with an acknowledgment of former Speaker Tip O'Neill, who died on January 5, 1994. While discussing additional community policing, the president honored Kevin Jett, a New York City cop attending the address who had been featured in a New York Times story in December 1993.
The speech lasted 63 minutes and consisted of 7,432 words. It was the longest State of the Union speech since Lyndon B. Johnson's 1967 State of the Union Address. Republican Representative Henry Hyde criticized the speech as "interminable".
The Republican Party response was delivered by Senator Bob Dole of Kansas. Dole argued that health care in the United States was not in crisis, the Republican opposition to Clinton's plans in the previous year had been popular, and the deficit reduction was the temporary result of tax increases.
Mike Espy, the Secretary of Agriculture, served as the designated survivor.
Contrary to common belief, Clinton did not have to recite the speech from memory because the teleprompter was loaded with the wrong speech. This had happened the previous year: in a speech Clinton gave to Congress on 22 September 1993 detailing the Clinton health care plan, the teleprompter was loaded with the wrong speech. Specifically, the one he gave to a joint session of Congress on 17 February 1993 shortly after he was sworn in. Teleprompter operators practiced with the old speech and it was accidentally left in, forcing Clinton to ad-lib for almost ten minutes. The two incidents are often conflated. What happened is that President Clinton simply referenced the September 1993 incident.
# Norglenwold

Norglenwold is a summer village in central Alberta, Canada. It is located on the southeast shore of Sylvan Lake adjacent to the Town of Sylvan Lake.

## Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Summer Village of Norglenwold had a population of 306 living in 132 of its 204 total private dwellings, a change of 12.1% from its 2016 population of 273. With a land area of 0.62 km$^2$ (0.24 sq mi), it had a population density of 493.5/km$^2$ (1,278.3/sq mi) in 2021.
In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Summer Village of Norglenwold had a population of 273 living in 112 of its 211 total private dwellings, a 17.7% change from its 2011 population of 232. With a land area of 0.62 km$^2$ (0.24 sq mi), it had a population density of 440.3/km$^2$ (1,140.4/sq mi) in 2016.
# York Mighty Ants

The York Mighty Ants are a professional basketball team in York, Pennsylvania, United States, and members of The Basketball League (TBL).

## History

The Mighty Ants were founded in 2013 by Seth Leonard and competed in the Eastern Basketball Alliance, until the league's closure in 2015. The team made it to the league championship in 2014 only to come up short to the Harrisburg Horizon In 2016, Team Owner Seth Leonard temporary put the team on hiatus. The team joined Triple Threat Basketball League in 2021.
On October 12, 2022, The Basketball League (TBL) announced the York Mighty Ants were approved as an expansion franchise for the upcoming 2023 season.
# Downer family

The Downer family has played a significant role in the South Australian and Australian political and social sphere since the early days of European settlement. Their earliest ancestors were Mary Ann Downer (1792–1868) and her son Henry Downer, a tailor (1811–1870), who travelled from England to Australia in 1862, settling in Adelaide.
| Name | Birth name | Alive | Occupation | Office | Parents | Spouse | Notes |
| Henry Downer | Henry Downer | 1811–1870 | Tailor | | | Jane Field | Arrived from England aboard the Eden on 24 February 1838 |
| George Downer | Alexander George Downer | 1839–1916 | Barrister, journalist, businessman | | Henry Downer and Jane Downer (née Field) | unmarried | |
| John Downer | John William Downer | 1843–1915 | Partner in the legal firm G & J Downer | Premier of South Australia 1885 – 1887, 1892 – 1893 | Henry Downer and Jane Downer (née Field) | Elizabeth Henderson Una Stella Haslingden Russell | Una Russell remarried in 1919, to D’Arcy Wentworth Addison. |
| Henry Edward Downer | | 1836–1905 | lawyer, businessman, politician | | Henry Downer and Jane Downer (née Field) | Maria Martin Haggar | |
| Alick Downer | Alexander Russell Downer | 1910–1981 | | Minister for Immigration, Australian 1958 – 1963 High Commissioner in London 1964 – 1972 | John William Downer and Una Stella Haslingden Downer (née Russell) | Mary Isobel Gosse | |
| Mary Downer | Mary Isobel Gosse | 1924–2014 | | | James Hay Gosse and Joanna Lang Gosse (née Barr Smith) | Alick Downer | |
| Alexander Downer | | 1951 – | | Minister for Foreign Affairs 1996 – 2007 Opposition Leader (Liberal Party) 1994 – 1995 | Alick Downer and Mary Downer (née Gosse) | Nicola Robinson | |
| Georgina Downer | Georgina Mary Beatrice Downer | 1979– | Lawyer, diplomat, political adviser | | Alexander Downer and Nicola Rosemary "Nicky" Downer (née Robinson) | Will Heath | Contested the 2018 Mayo by-election and the 2019 Australian federal election as the endorsed Liberal candidate, in both cases unsuccessfully. |
# Abel Selaocoe

Abel Selaocoe (born March 5, 1992) is a cellist, singer, composer and improviser from South Africa.

## Biography

Selaocoe was born in 1992 in Sebokeng, a township in South Africa. He started learning classical cello following his older brother Sammy at a Saturday music programme for children at the African Cultural Organization of South Africa (ACOSA) in Soweto. At 13 Selacoe won a scholarship to St Johns College in Johannesburg. At the college he studied with the teacher Michael Masote, one of the most influential classical South African musicians.
In 2010 Selaocoe moved to Manchester and enrolled at the Royal Northern College of Music. He completed his International Artist Diploma in 2018.
In 2021 Selaocoe signed to Warner Classics record label.
On 23 September 2022 Selaocoe released his debut album Where is Home (Hae Ke Kae).

## Style

Abel Selaocoe combines classical cello with traditional South African singing. His vocals are inspired by the throat singing of the Xhosa people. His music combines different genres including classical suite, township rhythms and ancestral anthems. His tracks include translations in African languages including Sotho and Zulu.

## Awards

* RPS Instrumentalist Award (2023)

## Collaborations

* Manchester Collective
* Art Ensemble of Chicago
* London Symphony Orchestra
* BBC National Orchestra of Wales
* BBC Concert Orchestra
* Britten Sinfonia

## Discography

* Where Is Home (Hae Ke Kae) (2022)
* Hymns of Bantu (2025)
# Marjory Mills

Marjory Hinemoa Mills (11 November 1896 – 22 May 1987) was a New Zealand embroiderer who was an artist and business owner.

## Early life

Mills was born in Wellington, New Zealand on 11 November 1896. Her parents were Thomas, a journalist, and Elizabeth (born Huggins). By 1920 the family had moved to Feilding as her father had purchased the local newspaper. Mills continued her schooling at Feilding District High School. Mills' mother taught her embroidery as a child, and she also had lessons with her art tutor's wife, a graduate of the Royal School of Needlework, London.

## Later life

In the 1920s, Margaret Alcorn and Mary Alcorn hired Mills to design embroidery patterns for their shop on Lambton Quay, Wellington, called "Liberty's Wellington". Mills had a team of assistants who printed her patterns onto fabric for sale.
The Alcorns' shops went into liquidation during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Mills went into business on her own. She and a friend, Irene Esau, opened a needlework shop in Palmerston North in 1934, and in 1938 Mills returned to Wellington to open a small embroidery shop in Cable Car Lane. The business was successful, providing not only needlework supplies but also lessons.
In 1952 Mills sold the lease of her shop and went overseas - firstly to England, where she studied art for two years at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, then to Europe for a year's travelling. While overseas, her art work was exhibited at the Imperial Gallery of Art, the Society of Women's Artists, and the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours.
On her return to Wellington, Mills opened a needlework shop and ran it successfully until the early 1970s, when she again gave up business for art. She moved to Blenheim and taught watercolour painting there with a friend, Brenda Narbey. In 1974 the two artists went to Italy on a painting trip, exhibiting their work in Wellington on their return.
In 1981 Mills moved to Dannevirke to be nearer family. In 1983, she damaged her right hand in an accident and it was amputated. Nevertheless, she learnt to paint and embroider with her left hand and continued with both interests.
Mills died in Dannevirke on 22 May 1987, and was buried at Mangatera Cemetery.

## Recognition

Mills was made a life member of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts in 1983.
# Užava Lighthouse

Užava Lighthouse (Latvian: Užavas bāka) - a lighthouse located on the Latvian coast of the Baltic Sea. The lighthouse stands in an isolated location, on a 28 metres high sand dune, which is permanently threatened by the Baltic Sea waves' erosion. For this reason, the first coastal reinforcement – a dense log wall was constructed to secure the lighthouse's location in 1910. Later, fir-tree baskets filled with gravel, and big boulders to absorb the waves' energy. Currently, the base of the lighthouse is protected by rock armour.

## History

The original tower of the Užava lighthouse was destroyed by artillery shells during World War I. The present-day lighthouse tower is 19 metres in height, completed in 1925. The inscription of the year 1924 on the nearby weather vane on the lightower's dome roof marks the beginning of construction works of the lighthouse.
# The Fiery Angel (novel)

The Fiery Angel (Russian: Огненный ангел, Ognenny Angel) is a Gothic novel by the Russian writer Valery Bryusov. The novel is a meticulous account of sixteenth-century Germany, notably Cologne and the world of the occult. Characters such as Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Faust appear alongside a description of a Black Mass.

## Plot

Set in sixteenth-century Germany, it depicts a love triangle between Renata, a passionate young woman, Ruprecht, a knight and Madiel, the fiery Angel. The novel tells the story of Ruprecht's attempts to win the love of Renata whose spiritual integrity is seriously undermined by her participation in occult practices. This love triangle is now recognised to be that which existed between the author, Bryusov, the symbolist novelist Andrei Bely and their shared lover, the nineteen-year-old Nina Petrovskaya.

## Reception

The Fiery Angel is generally regarded as a work of painstaking research and heightened emotion in which the author's comprehensive knowledge of the esoteric is displayed. Its modernity is reflected in its tension between sexuality and spirituality.
The Fiery Angel has been compared to Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita for its general theme of the occult, to Joris-Karl Huysmans's Là-bas for its description of a black Mass, and to Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun for its depiction of religious hysteria.
The composer Sergey Prokofiev based his opera of the same name upon Bryusov's novel.

## Publication

The novel was first serialized in the Russian literary monthly Vesy in 1907–08, and then published in two volumes in 1908. The novel was translated by Ivor Montagu and Sergei Nalbandov with an afterword by Gary Lachman in 2005.
# Coleorton Hall

Coleorton Hall is a 19th-century country mansion, formerly the seat of the Beaumont baronets of Stoughton Grange. Situated at Coleorton, Leicestershire, it is a Grade II* listed building now converted into residential apartments.
The manor of Coleorton was acquired by the Beaumont family by marriage in the 15th century. Sir Henry Beaumont, High Sheriff of Leicestershire was knighted in 1603. His son Thomas was created a baronet in 1619 and was raised to the Peerage as Viscount Beaumont of Swords, Dublin in 1622. Thomas Beaumont produced a masque entertainment at Coleorton in honour of William Seymour, (later Duke of Somerset), and his wife Frances.
On the death of the third Viscount in 1702 the estate passed to a distant cousin Sir George Beaumont, 4th Baronet of Stoughton Grange who was Member of Parliament for Leicester 1702-37. Following his death in 1737 and that of his brother in 1738, the estate and baronetcy passed to a cousin George Beaumont, of Great Dunmow, Essex. His son Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet rebuilt the old manor house in about 1804 to a design by architect George Dance the Younger. The grounds were laid out by Uvedale Price. Under the 7th Baronet, a patron of the arts whose collection formed the foundation of the National Gallery, Coleorton Hall's regular guests included William Wordsworth (who designed the Winter Garden in 1806), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott and John Constable.
In 1848, two extensions, the Picture Gallery and Beaumont Room, with its ornate ceiling panels, were added.
The ninth baronet, High Sheriff in 1852, substantially remodelled the house in about 1862, with the assistance of architect FP Cockerell, adding another storey. The main entrance front has three storeys and five bays, with an off-centre porte-cochere leading to a vaulted porch within a canted full-height bay.
In 1948 the Beaumonts sold the house to the National Coal Board for use as offices. In the early 1990s, the hall was rented to Fison's Pharmaceuticals. Both the Uk Operation and EMEA Sales management moved into the hall after relocating from other Fison's offices mainly based in Loughborough. The Hall was redecorated and refurbished after it was seen to be a little run down. In 1997 it was sold for redevelopment and converted into residential apartments.
HS2 and the Coleorton Hall Estate
The realignment of HS2 means that it will run several hundred metres away from any of the Coleorton Hall Estate grounds, the route is published on the HS2 website. HS2, if and when built will have to be in a deep cutting in this area due to the geographical elevation being higher than any of the surrounding areas. As of October 2020, the eastern leg of Phase 2b that is due to run past the Coleorton Hall Estate has been postponed indefinitely and the consensus is that it will likely never happen with the government more likely to focus on the Northern Power House routes.
# Norfolk Nelson Museum

The Nelson Museum was a small museum housed in a Grade II listed Georgian Merchant's house on South Quay in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. It was formed from the collection of local agriculturalist Ben Burgess, who was a lifelong collector of Nelson related artefacts. Opened by the Duke of Edinburgh in 2002, the museum celebrated the life and times of Admiral Horatio Nelson. There were galleries, a new temporary exhibition every two years, and interactive exhibits and games for children.
The museum was forced to close in October 2019 due to declining visitor numbers and the withdrawal of funding by Great Yarmouth Borough Council. The collection, comprising over 2,000 items including an oil portrait of Nelson and some of his original letters, was put into storage.
# Liesl Folks

Liesl Folks is an Australian engineer known for her research on spin-electronic quantum computing. She holds a full professorship and has been a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Arizona since 2019. She served as the provost for the University of Arizona from 2019 to 2023 and is currently the Vice President for Semiconductor Strategy.

## Early life and education

Folks, a native of Australia, holds a BSc (Hons) and a PhD, both in physics, from the University of Western Australia, as well as an MBA from Cornell University. Her PhD thesis investigated the characterization of ferromagnetic materials by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). Folks completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Western Australia in the AFM characterization of nanoscale permanent magnetic materials.

## Research and career

After serving as a researcher from 1998 to 2013 at IBM and Hitachi, in 2013 after receiving an MBA from Cornell University, Folks was appointed Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo. That year she was also appointed in the voluntary role of President of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Magnetics Society, a professional society. At the University at Buffalo, she was committed to building educational programs that align with students’ and society’s needs.
She served as Dean of Engineering when two new departments were launched at the University of Buffalo; materials design (a joint initiative at UB between to the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences) and engineering education.
In 2019, she joined the University of Arizona as a professor of electrical and computer engineering, where she was also appointed senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. She resigned as provost in 2023, following the death of a professor on campus.
Folks is a co-inventor on 12 U.S. patents and is a co-author on approximately 60 peer-reviewed articles that have attracted more than 13,300 citations, and reviewed candidate theses for the award of Doctor of Philosophy. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. In 2024, Folks received a Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Magnetics Society.
# Halhadar Das

Halhadar Das (born 2 August 1986) is an Indian cricketer. He played as a wicket-keeper batsman for Odisha. He has also played for the East Zone in the Ranji Trophy, and the Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL. Now he represents the Michigan Cricket Stars in Minor League Cricket in the United States.
# Edith Ackermann

Edith K. Ackermann (April 23, 1946 – December 24, 2016) was a Swiss-born American psychologist who explored the interactions between developmental psychology, play, learning and design. A graduate of the University of Geneva, and a protege to Jean Piaget, she held permanent and visiting positions at several institutions in the United States and Europe, including the MIT Media Lab.

## Early life and education

Ackermann was born in Switzerland in 1946. When she was a small child, Ackermann moved with her family to the hills outside of Cannes. Her mother Edith and her stepfather Klaus Peter Wieland both worked as magazine correspondents; Klaus Peter's father was painter Hans Beat Wieland. She attended the University of Geneva for an undergraduate degree, a master's degree and a Ph.D. in developmental psychology.
Soon after graduating, she was a junior faculty member in psychology at the University of Geneva and a research associate of Jean Piaget at the Centre International d'Epistémologie Génétique.

## Career

Ackermann's career focused on developmental psychology, play and the influence of technology on childhood learning. She worked for the MIT Media Lab with constructionism expert Seymour Papert. Using Papert's Logo programming language, Ackermann and Papert did work for The Lego Group that led to the development of Lego Mindstorms. She was also a visiting scientist at the MIT School of Architecture, was Honorary Professor of Psychology the University of Aix-Marseille I, and was a visiting professor at the University of Siena in Italy. In addition, she worked closely with the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Ackermann was an Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium.
Ackermann conducted early research that attempted to reconcile Piagetian principles with situated learning. Reanalyzing Piaget's work with the water-level task in terms of how children move from concrete thinking to abstraction, Ackermann wrote that Piaget's theory deals with how children become detached from concrete objects, where other theorists focused on the children's attachment to concrete items. In other work with Marina Bers, Ackermann studied hospitalized pediatric heart patients and found that they benefited from an interactive storytelling environment.

## Later life

In the early 2000s Edith coauthored guides for parents to aid in the development of their children with funding from LEGO. She also mentored numerous students by reading and sharing reflections on their works with them. She also advised design and R&D firms, INVIVIA and bespoke R&D.
Late in life, Ackermann became a close companion of Swiss philosopher Ernst von Glasersfeld; the pair met many years earlier while working with Piaget. In 2008, he moved to Massachusetts, and they began meeting frequently and working on an essay that remained unfinished upon his death in 2010.

## Awards

In late 2016, Ackermann received a lifetime achievement award at the FabLearn Conference at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.