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# John Barnes (musician)

John Barnes (15 May 1932 – 18 April 2022) was a British jazz saxophonist and clarinettist, who played New Orleans-styled jazz in his early career, but later also played saxophones in the mainstream style. He was also a music composer for comedy shows, including Living Single.

## Biography

John Barnes was born in Manchester on 15 May 1932. He started out his career as a flügelhorn player in the early 1950s, although adapted his playing skills to the clarinet, an instrument he favoured. He played traditional jazz with Alan Elsdon, The Mike Daniels' Delta Jazzmen and also The Zenith Six. He continued and extended his career musically from 1967 with the Scottish dixieland jazz trumpet and cornet player Alex Welsh and his Jazz Band. He began playing alto, baritone, soprano saxophone and the flute. His association with Welsh lasted for 10 years until 1977. During this period he rose to fame in the jazz arena appearing at the Newport Jazz Festival aged 37 in 1969. His skills on baritone saxophone earned him a huge jazz fan base, some suggesting he was the best they had seen in Europe. After leaving Welsh, he worked as co-leader, with trombonist Roy Williams, of the Midnite Follies Orchestra which included many American jazz artists.
Barnes also worked with many notable artists, including Janet Jackson, Leo Sayer, Humphrey Lyttelton, Gerry Mulligan, Spike Robinson, Bobby Wellins and Keith Nichols. In May 1964, after a bad car crash Barnes as a member of Alex Welsh band was replaced by Al Gay, until his full rehabilitation. Barnes considered Coleman Hawkins and Johnny Hodges to be his two main saxophone influences throughout his career.

## Personal life and death

In 2011, while on holiday in Greece, Barnes suffered a stroke. As a result of his stroke, on 9 February 2012, a benefit concert was held for Barnes at the 100 Club in Oxford Street, London.
Barnes died on 18 April 2022, at the age of 89.
# Nathan Bryan Whitfield

Nathan Bryan Whitfield (19 September 1799 in Lenoir County, North Carolina-27 December 1868 in Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama) was a planter, architect and General of the North Carolina Militia.

## Background

Born on the Whitfield family owned Pleasant Plains plantation (built by his grandfather William Whitfield II), to General Bryan Whitfield (1754-1817), he attended school at the age of nine under a tutor and entered the University at age 12. At 17, he completed coursework at the University. Two years later, he became the Counselor of State for the State of North Carolina and was a State Senator. He was later commissioned to Major General rank to succeed his father. In 1789 he was one of the founders of the University of North Carolina and one of its first Trustees.
Gaineswood, the grandest plantation house ever built in Marengo County and one of the most significant remaining examples of Greek Revival architecture in Alabama. was designed and built by Whitfield, beginning in 1843 as an open-hall log dwelling. Whitfield is known to have designed most of the house from pattern books by James Stuart, Minard Lafever, Nicholas Revett and others. Much of the work on the house was executed by highly skilled artisan slaves. Whitfield moved from North Carolina to Marengo County, Alabama in 1834. In 1842 Whitfield bought the 480-acre (1.9 km$^2$) property from George Strother Gaines, younger brother of Edmund P. Gaines.
The grounds had been the site of a notable historic event while owned by George Gaines. When Gaines was serving as the US Indian Agent, he is said to have met with the famous chief Pushmataha, of the Choctaw Nation, under an old post oak tree on what would become the Gaineswood estate. They were negotiating the terms of the treaty that would lead to the Choctaw removal to Indian Territory. The tree became known as the Pushmataha Oak.
Whitfield first named the estate Marlmont in 1843, he renamed it Gaineswood in 1856 in honor of Gaines. The Whitfield family tradition maintained that Gaines' original log house was the nucleus around which Whitfield had the mansion built, and that it was located at the present site of the south entrance hall and office. Gen. Whitfield sold the house to his son, Dr. Bryan Watkins Whitfield, in 1861. The second generation of Whitfields maintained Gaineswood as a residence. Mary Foscue Whitfield inherited the nearby Foscue-Whitfield House in 1861 upon her father's death and used that as a residence as well.
# Acoustic Shards

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Acoustic Shards is Buckethead's second special release. It consists of acoustic recordings culled from tapes that were reportedly recorded on July 2, 1991, when Buckethead was 22 years of age.
The album was released on May 31, 2007, by Jas Obrecht, through his label Avabella, who also released the DVDs Young Buckethead Vol. 1 and Young Buckethead Vol. 2. The album was engineered by Tyler Stipe
"For Mom" was first released officially on the album Colma (1998) and "Who Me?" followed on Monsters and Robots (1999).

## Credits

* Buckethead – acoustic guitar
* Tyler Stipe – engineer
# Weekends with Maury and Connie

Weekends with Maury and Connie was an MSNBC television news series featuring light-hearted take on news of the week.
It was hosted by talk show host Maury Povich and his wife, television news anchor Connie Chung. Beginning in early 2006, it appeared every weekend morning on MSNBC until Dan Abrams was appointed the new general manager of MSNBC. Due to the show's low ratings, near the bottom of the charts, Abrams canceled the show. The last broadcast aired June 17, 2006.
On the final episode, Chung, dressed in a white evening gown and writhing atop a black piano, sang a parody to the tune of "Thanks for the Memory". Video clips of the bizarre, off-key farewell performance circulated on internet video sites like YouTube, and have been seen by more people than viewed Weekends with Maury and Connie during its run.
# Perat

Perat (פרת) is the Hebrew name for two watercourses:
* The Euphrates, or Nehar Perat (נהר פרת)
* The Wadi Qelt, or Nahal Perat (נחל פרת)
# Neon Rose

Neon Rose was a Swedish hard rock band. They released three albums between 1974 and 1975, but failed to make any impact outside of their native country.

## History

The band arose in 1969 by members Roger Holegard, Piero Mengarelli and Benno Mengarelli under the name Spider; when the drummer Stanley Larsson joined the group in 1973 they took the name Neon Rose. Signing with Vertigo Records in 1974, their debut album, A Dream of Glory and Pride, was released the same year, and was followed with a sophomore effort, Two, early in 1975. Following the recording of this album, Stanley Larsson left the group and was replaced by Thomas Wiklund, formerly of Uppåt Väggarna. The group's final album, Reload, was released in 1975 and the group split, with Holegard going on to join Wasa Express.
Piero Mengarelli attempted to reform the group with all new members in 1977, but this incarnation disbanded after recording a few demos. In 1981, the group reformed with the Mengareilli brothers and several new members. They recorded one single for Rosa Honung Records which never was issued.

## Members
### Original members

* Roger Holegård - vocals, guitar, mellotron
* Piero Mengarelli - guitar
* Gunnar Hallin - guitar (1974–1975)
* Benno Mengarelli - bass
* Kenta Krull - drums (1969–1973)
* Stanley Larsson - drums (1973–75)
* Thomas Wiklund - drums (1975)

### 1981 reunion members

* Piero Mengarelli - guitar and vocals
* Benno Mengarelli - bass
* Joaquin Calafell - drums
* Erik Svensson - keyboards
* Conny Bloom - guitar

## Discography

* A Dream of Glory and Pride (Vertigo, 1974)
* Two (Vertigo, 1975)
* Reload (Vertigo, 1975)
# Dejan Tofčević

Dejan Tofčević (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Тофчевић; born on 10 June 1971 in Užice, Serbia, but spent his childhood in Bajina Bašta, Serbia) is a writer of satirical short forms such as aphorisms, short stories and poetry. He works as an air traffic controller at Podgorica airport.
# Norwegian Grove Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Norwegian Grove Township is a township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 349 at the 2000 census.
Norwegian Grove Township was organized in 1873. A large share of the early settlers being natives of Norway caused the name to be selected.

## Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 35.7 square miles (92.3 km$^2$), of which 33.6 square miles (87.0 km$^2$) is land and 2.1 square miles (5.3 km$^2$) (5.78%) is water.

## Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 349 people, 124 households, and 98 families residing in the township. The population density was 10.4 people per square mile (4.0/km$^2$). There were 144 housing units at an average density of 4.3/sq mi (1.7/km$^2$). The racial makeup of the township was 99.43% White, 0.29% Native American, and 0.29% from two or more races.
There were 124 households, out of which 37.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.4% were married couples living together, 6.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.2% were non-families. 16.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.81 and the average family size was 3.16.
In the township the population was spread out, with 28.1% under the age of 18, 5.4% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 25.2% from 45 to 64, and 15.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 120.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.4 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $28,571, and the median income for a family was $30,972. Males had a median income of $21,875 versus $20,625 for females. The per capita income for the township was $12,029. About 20.4% of families and 23.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 32.9% of those under age 18 and 15.6% of those age 65 or over.
# Thomas B. Fletcher

Thomas Brooks Fletcher (October 10, 1879 – July 1, 1945) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Born in Mechanicstown, Ohio, Fletcher attended the public schools, a private school at Augusta, Ohio, and the Richard School of Dramatic Art in Cleveland. He graduated from Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, in 1900. He was editor of the Daily Leader, Alliance, Ohio, from 1903 to 1905. He served on the staff of the Morning News, Canton, Ohio, from 1905 to 1906. He became a Redpath lecturer in 1906. He was editor and publisher of the Daily Tribune at Marion, Ohio, from 1910 to 1922.
Fletcher was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses (March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1929). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress.
Fletcher was elected to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1939). He served as chairman of the Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives (Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses), Committee on the Census (Seventy-fifth Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for election in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress. He resumed lecturing and chautauqua work. He died in Washington, D.C., July 1, 1945. He was interred in Mechanicstown Cemetery, Mechanicstown, Ohio.

## Sources

* United States Congress. "Thomas B. Fletcher (id: F000205)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
U.S. House of Representatives :
| Preceded byR. Clint Cole | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 8th congressional district 1925–1929 | Succeeded byGrant E. Mouser Jr. |
| Preceded byGrant E. Mouser Jr. | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 8th congressional district 1933–1939 | Succeeded byFrederick C. Smith |
# Jason Isaacs (singer)

Jason Isaacs (born 3 October 1967) is an English singer and songwriter.

## Biography

He was born on 3 October 1967, in Killingworth, Northumberland where his parents still reside.
Isaacs was the first person to win the ITV1 Peoples Crooner of the Year competition in 2010, part of the Alan Titchmarsh Show.
They call him the North-East's (UK) 'Ambassador of Swing', also referred to as 'Britain's Answer to Michael Bublé'.
A self-taught saxophonist who in the late 1990s focused more on singing. Having spent more than ten years touring the world playing bars and clubs as far afield as Bangkok, Switzerland and New York City, he settled back in his hometown to set down roots and develop his career. His first album, Fever was self-released in 2009. He found some commercial success with his first single, a cover of the Irving Berlin classic "Let's Face the Music and Dance" in Autumn 2010 following ITV1's 'UK Crooner of the Year' competition on the Alan Titchmarsh Show. The prize included the recording at Abbey Road Studios. The single, released by Decca, a division of Universal Records saw some chart success and several sell-out tours, most notably at Newcastle City Hall and at the Edinburgh Festival at the famous Assembly Hall. Decca's head of A&R Tom Lewis described him as having "the voice of Dean Martin, the looks of George Clooney and the swagger of Robbie Williams."
This was not Isaacs' first brush with TV talent shows, having made it as far as bootcamp on the X Factor in 2005.
Isaacs toured constantly with his big band The Ambassadors of Swing, with guest vocalists including Faye Tozer of pop group Steps, as well as the Fenner Sisters and more recently Steve Norman of Spandau Ballet.
Isaacs is a keen cricketer and plays for the Old Record Players Cricket Club based in Newcastle upon Tyne.
# Time Was

Time Was is a documentary television series that premiered on HBO on November 11, 1979. It was hosted by Dick Cavett with each program looking at one decade from the past starting from the 1920s up to the 1970s. The historical program looked at the lifestyles and society during the various periods of time. The series was followed up with two other HBO documentary series hosted by Cavett, Remember When and Yesteryear.
# The Body Human

The Body Human is a series of specials produced by Tomorrow Entertainment/Medcom Company and telecast by CBS, between 1977 and 1984. They were produced and directed by Robert E. Fuisz and Alfred R. Kelman, who was nominated for an Academy Award in 1966 for The Face of a Genius. The series concentrated on exploring aspects of the human body, from plastic surgery to sexual function. American actor Alexander Scourby was the narrator. The series was nominated for and won Emmy Awards as well as a Peabody Award.
# Lake of Ghosts

The Lake of Ghosts (Mamraz Lake) is a small lake situated in the richly-forested Iranian province of Mazandaran, and located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the city of Nowshahr. The settlement nearest the lake is the village of Vanush. The local name for this lake is Mamraz (meaning hornbeam in Persian), but it is better known by the names "Ghost Lake" or "Lake of Ghosts" - given it in reference to its eerie swampland landscape featuring countless half-drowned trees, often shrouded in mist, giving them the appearance of phantoms.

## Natural history

'The Lake of Ghosts' or 'Hornbeam Lake' has long been regarded as a site of natural beauty by virtue not only of its geographical location, but also of a flora rich in plant species, both woody and herbaceous. This lake has been registered in the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran by the registered number of 402 in order to preserve its animal and plant species. The formation of the lake took place over a geological timespan extending from the middle Cretaceous to the Quaternary period.
The length of the lake is 300 m (980 ft) and its width is 70 m (230 ft) and in total it covers an area of 40 hectares (99 acres) with the surface and its surroundings covered with alder and hornbeam trees.
The hornbeam is a tree species native to Iran which can reach heights of between 15 and 25 m (49 and 82 ft), with a trunk bearing smooth, gray-green bark. The dead or moribund specimens protruding from the lake have suffered considerable decay from having been partially submerged in its waters for many years. Unlike the hornbeams, the alders are well-adapted to the wetland habitat of the lake and are thus in better health.
For all its strange beauty, the Lake of Ghosts has not yet been promoted seriously as a tourist attraction and, as yet, lacks any facilities which could make it such. It can be accessed only on rough roads requiring the use of four-wheel drive vehicles - and even then only safely at certain times of year.

## Media and related videos

Films and documentaries on the lake have been made or are being produced. One of these is named The Lake of Ghosts by Reza Jafari Jozani with Dr. Hesam Bani-Eghbal. Works of fiction inspired by the lake may include a novel of the same name written by Darren Shan, under the name of 'The Lake of Souls'.

## Gallery

* The Ghost Lake in Mazandaran - North of Iran
* The Ghost Lake in Mazandaran - North of Iran
# Sebastián Garrocq

Sebastián Garrocq (born (1979-11-27)27 November 1979) is an Argentine male volleyball player. He was part of the Argentina men's national volleyball team at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship in Poland. He played with UPCN San Juan.

## Clubs

* UPCN San Juan (2014)
# U.S. Post Office and Customshouse (Everett, Washington)

The U.S. Post Office and Customshouse in Everett, Washington served as the city's main post office from 1917 to 1964. It has also been known as Federal Building. The building, designed in the Neoclassical form by Oscar Wenderoth, now houses the offices of the Chicago Title Company.
The two-story building's front facade features eight Greek Ionic columns. The reinforced concrete structure is finished with Wilkinson sandstone and granite quarried in Index.
On August 6, 1975, the building, then home to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was bombed by an unknown assailant at the same time as a federal building in Tacoma.
The bureau turned the building over to the General Services Administration in the late 1990s, who prepared it for a possible sale. The city of Everett sought to acquire the building as the home to a museum, but faced competition from the Tulalip Tribes, who planned to house a post office in the building. Ultimately, the building was acquired in 2000 by the Henry Cogswell College for use as its main campus and renovated at a cost of $2 million. The college closed in 2006, selling the building to private developers in 2008 for $2.4 million. The Chicago Title Company moved into the building in 2009.
# Time Will Tell (game show)

Time Will Tell is an early American game show that aired on the DuMont Television Network Fridays at 10:30 pm ET from August 27 to October 15, 1954. The host was Ernie Kovacs. Don Russell was the announcer, and Eddie Hatrak provided music.
Game play involved three contestants answering questions in 90-second rounds, timed with a large hourglass.
The sustaining program, produced and distributed by the network, aired on most DuMont affiliates on Fridays at 10:30 pm Eastern Time, replacing Gamble on Love which was also hosted by Kovacs in the same time slot. After Time Will Tell ended, DuMont replaced the series with local (non-network) programming.

## Episode status

DuMont, like NBC and CBS during the 1950s, probably kept at least one or two "example" episodes of each of its main game shows, though DuMont's exact policy is not known. However, DuMont's archive was destroyed after the network ceased broadcasting in 1956. Although a small number of DuMont game show episodes are known to exist in various archives, none are known to exist of either Time will Tell nor Gamble on Love.
# Ardelle Kloss

Ardelle Kloss Sanderson (April 12, 1916 – September 15, 2011, in Lake Placid, New York) was an American figure skater who competed in pair skating and ice dancing. She trained in Lake Placid under coach Willi Boeckl and competed with partner Roland Janson. She and Janson won the bronze medal in ice dance at the 1937 United States Figure Skating Championships and captured the bronze in pairs the following year.
After her competitive career, Sanderson was a longtime figure skating official and was a judge at the 1964 Winter Olympic Games. She was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1991 and died in 2011 at age 95.
# NRP Vasco da Gama (F330)

NRP Vasco da Gama is a Portuguese frigate of the Vasco da Gama class operated by the Portuguese Navy. She was laid down by Blohm + Voss on 2 February 1989, launched on 26 June 1989, and commissioned on 18 January 1991.

## Service history

In 1995, Vasco de Gama spent five months deployed in the Adriatic Sea as part of Operation Sharp Guard, enforcing economic sanctions and an arms embargo against the former Yugoslavia, with the frigate inspecting 91 merchant ships during the deployment. In July 1998, she was deployed off Guinea-Bissau to rescue Portuguese and other European citizens threatened by the Guinea-Bissau Civil War. Vasco da Gama was deployed to East Timor as part of the Australian-led INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce from 16 November 1999 to 22 February 2000.

## Citations

* 1 2 Matos 2020, p. 86
* ↑ Stevens, David (2007). Strength Through Diversity: The combined naval role in Operation Stabilise (PDF). Working Papers. Vol. 20. Canberra: Sea Power Centre - Australia. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-642-29676-4. ISSN 1834-7231. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
# Numerus (Roman military unit)

A numerus (lit. 'number', plural numeri) was a unit of the Roman army.
In the Imperial Roman army (27 BC – 476 AD), it referred to units of barbarian allies who were not integrated into the regular army structure of legions and auxilia. Such units were of undetermined strength and their organisation and equipment probably varied according to the unit's ethnic origin. The term was also applied to quasi-permanent detachments of regular army units.
In the Late Roman army (284 – 476), a numerus was a regular infantry unit of the limitanei, or border forces, believed to have been c. 300 strong.
# India proper

India proper or Hindustan proper is a geographical term being used to describe different regions of the Indian subcontinent at different periods of history.
India proper was used to describe the regions of Punjab, Sindh, Gujarat, Malwa, Rajputana, Delhi, Agra, Oudh, Bihar and Bengal.
During the period of the British Indian Empire, it was used to describe 'India' without the province of Burma and British Ceylon.
# Karhan, Uttar Pradesh

Karhan is a small town in Mau district, Uttar Pradesh, India.

## Description

In Karha village, children aged 0-6 make up approximately 16.73% of the total population, with 628 children in this age group. The village has an average sex ratio of 999, which is above the Uttar Pradesh state average of 912. However, the child sex ratio in Karha is 858, which is lower than the state average of 902. (According to 2011 Indian census)