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# Jiří Linha

Jiří Linha (15 November 1930 – 10 February 2022) was a Czech conductor, composer, vocalist and chorus master, the head of vocal-instrumental band Linha Singers.

## Life and career

Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on 15 November 1930, Linha began his musical education at the age of six by playing the violin. Soon he joined the Prague Philharmonic Children's Choir as a soprano and, toward the end of World War II, as a baritone to the Czech Choir conducted by Jan Kűhn. Both ensembles regularly cooperated with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Prague Symphony Orchestra.
He studied at the Faculty of Education of Charles University, from where he left in 1953 as a music teacher for secondary school. In 1961 he left for the Artistic Ensemble of the Ministry of the Interior (USMV). In 1964, he founded the band Linha Singers.
Linha died in his sleep on 10 February 2022, at the age of 91.
# List of people from Kanpur

The following is a list of notable people associated with the Indian city of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. These people were born or lived in Kanpur.

## A

* Manindra Agrawal
* Subhashini Ali
* Surinder Amarnath
* Abhishek Avasthi

## B

* Aparnaa Bajpai
* Valentine Bambrick
* Shamim Bano
* Frank Bellew
* Raghunandan Singh Bhadauria
* Abhijeet Bhattacharya
* Abhay Bhushan
* Bryce Chudleigh Burt
* James Bush (sportsman)
* Harcourt Butler

## C

* Naresh Chander Chaturvedi
* Sharvee Chaturvedi
* Cecil Clementi
* Sibyl, Lady Colefax

## D

* Poonam Dhillon
* Ashwni Dhir
* Jagatvir Singh Drona

## G

* Rohan Gavaskar
* Anirvan Ghosh
* Mahendra Mohan Gupta
* Shyam Lal Gupta

## H

* Harish-Chandra
* Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet
* Jan Holden
* Adrian A. Husain

## I

* Shazia Ilmi

## J

* Rashid Jahan
* Shriprakash Jaiswal
* Sunil Jogi

## K

* Mohammad Kaif
* Premlata Katiyar
* Ajay Kapoor (politician)
* Abul Khair Kashfi
* Vinay Katiyar
* Hard Kaur
* Azimullah Khan
* Imran Khan (cricketer, born May 1973)
* Gaurav Khanna
* Giriraj Kishore
* Radhey Shyam Kori
* Ram Nath Kovind
* Sucheta Kriplani
* Dev Kumar
* Saket Kushwaha

## L

* Vierendrra Lalit

## M

* Mina MacKenzie
* Satish Mahana
* Ajai Malhotra
* Alice Marval
* Irshad Mirza
* Amit Mishra (cricketer, born 1991)
* Satish Mishra
* Vishal Mishra
* Bal Chandra Misra
* Gopal Shankar Misra
* Narendra Mohan
* Haseena Moin
* Henry Montgomery (bishop)
* Robert Montgomery (colonial administrator)

## P

* Raja Ram Pal
* Fanny Parkes
* William Peel (Royal Navy officer)

## R

* Altaf Raja
* Baji Rao II
* Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
* Clement Daniel Rockey
* Pradeep Rohatgi
* John Forbes Royle
* John Ryan (VC 1857)

## S

* Rakesh Sachan
* Amit Sadh
* Lakshmi Sahgal
* Nana Sahib
* Kratika Sengar
* Gopal Sharma
* Anand Shukla
* Rajeev Shukla
* Rakesh Shukla
* Rishabh Shukla
* Amit Sial
* Anurag Singh
* Ram Swaroop Singh
* Irfan Solanki
* Raju Srivastav
* Raju Srivastava
* Tanmay Srivastava, Cricketer
* Virendra Swarup
* Jagendra Swarup

## T

* Laxmi Ganesh Tewari
* Mowbray Thomson
* Ankit Tiwari
* Aseem Trivedi
* Ragini Trivedi

## U

* Amin Ullah

## V

* Atal Bihari Vajpayee
* Maharishi Valmiki
* Purnima Verma
* Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
* Salil Vishnoi

## W

* Nushoor Wahidi
* Bob Woolmer
* Sheila Wright

## Y

* Abhishek Yadav
* Chaudhary Harmohan Singh Yadav
* Kuldeep Yadav
# John DeMerit

John Stephen DeMerit (born January 8, 1936) is an American former professional baseball player from Port Washington, Wisconsin. He was an outfielder over parts or all of five seasons (1957–1959; 1961–1962) with the Milwaukee Braves and New York Mets. Nicknamed "Thumper", DeMerit threw and batted right-handed and was listed as 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and 195 pounds (88 kg).
An alumnus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he signed a $100,000 bonus contract with his hometown Braves in 1957. Under the bonus rule then in force, the Braves were required to keep DeMerit on their big-league roster for all of 1957. DeMerit got into 33 games, six as a starting outfielder, but collected only five singles in 34 at bats. Still, Milwaukee won the National League pennant and drew the New York Yankees as their opponents in the 1957 World Series. DeMerit appeared in one contest, as a pinch runner for veteran catcher Del Rice in the eighth inning of Game 3. He failed to score a run and the Braves fell, 12–3. But they outlasted the Yankees in seven games to become world champions.
A change in the bonus rule allowed the Braves to send DeMerit to the minor leagues in 1958, and DeMerit spent most of 1958 and 1959 and all of 1960 in the higher reaches of the Milwaukee farm system. Then in 1961, he spent his only full year in the major leagues. He appeared in only 34 games and hit a poor .162 with 12 hits, but those dozen included his first two MLB home runs, hit off five-time All-Star Larry Jackson April 26 and future Baseball Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax September 15.
The Braves left him unprotected in the 1961 National League expansion draft, where he was selected by the Mets with their tenth pick, 20th overall, in the lottery's regular phase. He made the 1962 Mets early-season roster and appeared in 14 games during the season's first month. On May 15, he singled, walked and hit his third big-league home run (off Dick Ellsworth), scoring the winning run in a 6–5 New York triumph. Such victories were rare, as the Mets won only 40 games all season. The two hits were the last of DeMerit's career: he retired at age 26, rather than report to Triple-A when the Mets attempted to farm him out a few days later.
For his career, DeMerit hit .174 with 23 hits, three doubles, three home runs and seven runs batted in in 93 games played.
Following the death of fellow teammate Felix Mantilla, DeMerit is the last surviving member of the 1957 World Champion Milwaukee Braves. There are no living players who played on an earlier World Series-winning team.
# Abdel Latif Ahmed

Abdel Latif Ahmed (Arabic: عبدالطيف أحمد) (born August 13, 1983) is an Egyptian indoor volleyball player. He was part of the Egypt national team at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He is a middle blocker and is 202 cm tall.

## Clubs

* Current – El Nasr
* Debut – AHLY
# Alliance MMA Gym

Alliance MMA Gym is a mixed martial arts training facility based in San Diego, California. It is one of the top professional MMA training camps, with facilities in San Diego, Chula Vista, El Cajon, and Quezon City, Philippines.
Alliance MMA Gym has trained a number of professional mixed martial artists who have found success in organizations such as the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC), Strikeforce and Bellator MMA.

## History

Alliance MMA Gym was opened by Brandon Vera in 2007, following his departure from his position as a trainer at City Boxing in San Diego.

## Notable fighters

* Brandon Vera - Former One Championship Heavyweight Champion
* Joey Beltran - Former Bellator Light Heavyweight Title Challenger
* Jan Błachowicz - Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, Former KSW Light Heavyweight Champion
* Michael Chandler - Former Bellator Lightweight Champion (2 Time), Fought For Bellator Lightweight Championship 6 Times, Record; (4:2), Fought For Bellator Lightweight Interim Championship 1 Time, Record; (0:1)
* Dominick Cruz - First UFC 2-Time Bantamweight Champion, 3 defenses, Former, Last WEC Bantamweight Champion, 2 defenses
* Phil Davis - Former Bellator Light Heavyweight Champion, First Bellator Light Heavyweight Grand Prix Champion, Former UFC Light Heavyweight Contender
* Cat Zingano - Current Bellator Women's Featherweight Contender, Former UFC Women's Bantamweight Contender, 1x title challenger
* Phil De Fries
* Omar de la Cruz
* Tomasz Drwal
* Wilson Reis
* Mike Easton
* Danny Martinez
* Alexander Gustafsson - UFC Light Heavyweight Contender, 3x title contender
* Frank Shamrock - First UFC Middleweight (now Light Heavyweight) Champion, first Strikeforce Middleweight Champion, and first WEC Light Heavyweight Champion
* Chris Leben - First WEC Middleweight Champion, Former UFC Middleweight Contender
* K. J. Noons - Retired UFC Lightweight, Former EliteXC Lightweight Champion, Former Strikeforce Welterweight Challenger
* Jorge Ortiz
* Ross Pearson - Current UFC Lightweight
* Rolando Perez
* Viktor Pešta - Current UFC Heavyweight
* Ed Ratcliff
* Jeremy Stephens - Current Professional Fighters League Lightweight, Former UFC Featherweight
* Angela Hill - Current UFC Strawweight
# Chah Shurak

Chah Shurak (Persian: چاه شورك, also Romanized as Chāh Shūrak; also known as Chāh-e Sūrak) is a village in Asir Rural District, Asir District, Mohr County, Fars province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 216, in 32 families.
# Herbert Bown

Herbert Arthur Bown (3 May 1893 – 1959) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Halifax Town, Hull City and Leicester City.
# Sakatum nask

The Sakatum nask or Sagadum nask was one of the legal nasks (volumes) of the Sasanian Avesta. No parts of it are known to have survived, but later references show that it covered, e.g., topics like family or property law.

## Sources

The Sakatum nask itself is no longer extant but references are found in later Zoroastrian writings. First, the 8th book of the Denkard provides in section 8.38-8.43 a description of its content. In addition, the Rivayats, a series of exchanges from the 15th - 17th century, give a short overview on the content of the Sakatum nask.

## Structure and content

The Sasanian Avesta was organized into 21 nasks, i.e., volumes, which were grouped into 3 divisions; Gathic, ritual, and legal nasks. Within this scheme, the Sakatum nask belonged to the legal nasks. Edward William West estimates, that it consisted of ca. 53.000 words of Avestan text accompanied by ca. 476,600 words of commentary in Pahlavi, which would make it the second longest nask after the Nikatum nask. According to the Denkard, the Sakatum nask consisted of 30 chapters, whereas the Rivayats name 52 chapters. Whereas not much information is provided in the Rivayats, the description in the Denkard (8.38-43) coveres the first six chapters.

## Topics

The first section in Denkard 8.38 covered topics family and public topics. The second section in Denkard 8.39, called Hachidakânistân (lost property code), dealt with lost property. The third section in Denkard 8.40, called Ziyanakistan (fertile cattle code), covered live and dead cattle. The fourth section in Denkard 8.41, called Vakhshistan (increase code), covered financial law. The fifth section in Denkard 8.42, called Varistan (ordeal code), covered ordeal by fire. Finally, the sixth and last section in Denkard 8.43, covered miscellaneous topics.
# Siad Haji

Abdulkadir Abdi "Siad" Haji (Arabic: عبد القادر عبدي "سعيد" حاجي; Osmanya: 𐒖𐒁𐒆𐒚𐒐𐒏𐒖𐒆𐒘𐒇 𐒖𐒁𐒆𐒘 “𐒈𐒖𐒘𐒆” 𐒔𐒖𐒃𐒘; born 1 December 1999) is a Somali professional footballer who plays as a winger for USL League Two club Vermont Green. Born a Somali refugee in Kenya and a former United States youth international, he plays for the Somalia national team.

## Early life

Haji was born in a Kenyan refugee camp, his parents having fled Somalia. In 2004, they moved to New Hampshire. Haji settled in a refugee community near downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, played youth soccer for the New Hampshire Classics, and was offered a spot on the New England Revolution youth academy's under-16 team. However, the distance and financial logistics made it difficult for him to accept a spot in the academy. He would continue to play for the Classics through high school.

## Career
### Youth and college

Upon graduating, Haji did not have the eligibility to play in NCAA Division I, so he played for New England College in NCAA Division III during his first year. With the Pilgrims, he scored nine times in fourteen appearances. Between Haji's first and second years, he transferred from New England College to Virginia Commonwealth University where he was a starting midfielder for the VCU Rams men's soccer team, and earned the Atlantic 10 Midfielder of the Year award in 2018.

### Professional

Haji played two seasons in USL League Two (then known as the Premier Development League) with the Portland Timbers U23s. He made 21 appearances over the two seasons, scoring five goals.
On 3 January 2019, he signed a Generation Adidas contract with Major League Soccer and was eligible for the 2019 MLS SuperDraft. Haji, by many mock drafts, was considered a top five draft pick, and some cases, the first overall draft pick. He was ultimately drafted second overall in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft by the San Jose Earthquakes, the highest ever drafted alumnus from VCU.
Ahead of the 2019 USL Championship season, Haji went on loan to Reno 1868. He made his professional debut and his Reno debut on 16 March 2019, in a 2–1 win against Austin Bold, subbing on at halftime for Gilbert Fuentes.
Haji was released by San Jose following the 2022 season.
On 19 January 2023, he signed a contract with USL Championship side FC Tulsa.
Haji joined fourth-tier side Vermont Green of the USL League Two on May 2, 2024.

### International

He played for various youth teams for the United States. In 2020, he was called up by the Somalia national team ahead of their first games at home in Mogadishu.
In March 2022, he was called up to the Somalia national team. Haji debuted with Somalia in a 3–0 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification loss to Eswatini on 23 March 2022.
# Woodrow Wilson High School (Beckley, West Virginia)

Woodrow Wilson High School (also, just “Beckley”) is a high school in Beckley, West Virginia, teaching grades nine through twelve. It is one of four secondary schools in the Raleigh County Public School District. The school's colors are maroon and white, and the mascot is a Flying Eagle. The school's principal is Ryan Stafford. Feeder schools are Park Middle School and Beckley Stratton Middle School. In 1967, it moved from its original location to its current location at 400 Stanaford Road.

## History

Beckley High School, the first public high school in the city, opened in 1917 using the facilities of the former Beckley Institute on Park Avenue. It operated there for one year, until a new high school was built on South Kanawha Street - Beckley Graded and High School.
The Town District Board of Education made plans for a new building. Through the proceeds from a bond issue, a new structure was built and was occupied in December 1925. It was named for former President Woodrow Wilson, who died the previous year. Woodrow Wilson High School's new building was built on land adjacent to the former Beckley Institute on Park Avenue.
When the school moved to its current site, outside of main Beckley, the former site was converted into Park Junior High School (now Park Middle School). During the first year of operation at the new site (1967–68), a record number of 2,432 students attended WWHS.

## Notable alumni

* Rob Ashford — Broadway choreographer and Tony Award-winner
* Ed Evans — American politician
* Cathy Leigh Comer Justice — First Lady of West Virginia
* Jim Justice — coal baron, owner of The Greenbrier resort and 36th Governor of West Virginia
* Doug Legursky — former NFL player
* Jon McBride — US astronaut
* Stephen M. Pachuta — retired United States Navy admiral
* Nick Rahall — former United States congressman
* Chris Sarandon — actor
* Morgan Spurlock (1970-2024) — filmmaker
* Tamar Slay — former NBA player for the New Jersey Nets and Charlotte Bobcats
* Hulett C. Smith — 27th Governor of West Virginia
* Gayle Conelly Manchin — American educator, politician, former First Lady of West Virginia from 2005 to 2010
# Pierre Rabon

Pierre Rabon (18 October 1619 – 18 January 1684) was a French portrait painter, who was active during the reign of Louis XIV.

## Early life

Rabon was born in Le Havre.

## Career

Rabon became a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture on 3 July 1660. His reception piece was a portrait of Antoine de Ratabon, who at the time was both Superintendent of Buildings (Surintendant des Bâtiments) and the director of the Académie. His portrait of Ratabon was for a long time believed to have been lost, but in 1994, a painting in the collection of the Château de Versailles, which had previously been identified by Albert Laprade as a portrait of the architect Louis Le Vau, was proposed as more likely to be Rabon's portrait of Ratabon.
Rabon exhibited a portrait of a Monsieur Perier at the Paris Salon of 1673. His other works include Portrait of a Woman (private collection) and three other portraits known from engravings: Claude Gallard, Councillor at the Parlement, engraved by Jean-Baptiste Humbelot; Louis Roupert, Master Goldsmith at Metz, engraved by Louis Cossin [Wikidata]; and Hyacinthe Serroni, Archbishop of Albi, engraved by Gantrel. There are also records of copies commissioned by the Bâtiments du Roi: Christ on the Cross after Charles Le Brun in 1667 for the Menagerie at Versailles and Equestrian portrait of Louis XIV after Mignard in 1671.
In 2000, the painting Saint John Preaching in the Desert (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Carcassonne), previously believed to be a work by Sébastien Bourdon, was reattributed to Pierre Rabon.

## Personal life

Pierre Rabon married Louise Gomboust on 29 October 1643. Their son, Nicolas Rabon (1644–1686), became a history painter. Pierre Rabon died in Paris.

## Gallery

* Louis Roupert, Master Goldsmith at Metz, engraved 1668 by Louis Cossin [Wikidata] after a painting by Pierre Rabon
* Possibly Pierre Rabon's 1660 reception piece, a portrait of Antoine de Ratabon (Château de Versailles)
* Saint John Preaching in the Desert, attributed to Pierre Rabon (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Carcassonne)
# Louis Johnson (poet)

Louis Albert Johnson (27 September 1924 Feilding, New Zealand – 1 November 1988) was a New Zealand poet.

## Life

He graduated from Wellington Teachers’ Training College. From 1968 to 1980, Johnson lived overseas and traveled widely, with an extended stay in Papua New Guinea.
Johnson worked as a schoolteacher, journalist, and editor of several publications, including the New Zealand Poetry Yearbook (1951–64), Numbers (1954–60), and Antipodes New Writing (1987).

## Awards

* 1975 New Zealand Book Award for poetry for Fires and Patterns
* 1976 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry

## Works

* "City Sunday"; "Holidays"; "Kapiti Coast", New Zealand Electronic Poetry Center
* Stanza and Scene (1945)
* Roughshod Among the Lilies, (1951)
* The Sun Among the Ruins (1951)
* New Worlds for Old (1957).
* Bread and a Pension. Pegasus Press. 1964.
* Land like a lizard, New Guinea poems. Jacaranda Press. 1970. ISBN 978-0-7016-0346-5.
* Onion (1972)
* Coming and Going. Mallinson Rendel. 1982. ISBN 978-0-908606-14-6.
* Winter Apples (1984)
* True confessions of the last cannibal: new poems. Antipodes Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-9597805-0-5.
* Terry Sturm, ed. (2000). Selected poems. Victoria University Press. ISBN 978-0-86473-350-4.

## Criticism

* "Starveling Year, poems by Mary Stanley", new zealand electronic poetry centre
# Kūʻē Petitions

The Kūʻē (Hawaiian: "opposition") Petitions of 1897 were a protest against the annexation of Hawaii by the United States. Also referred to as the "monster petition". It was organized by Hui Aloha ʻĀina.

## History

The majority of the population of the Hawaiian Kingdom in the late 1890s was vociferously opposed to annexation. In a single weeklong petition drive in 1897, 21,269 signatures — representing well over half of the native adult population of Hawaii at the time — were procured by horseback, boat and foot travel by members of Hui Aloha ʻĀina (Hawaiian Patriotic League). Names on the petition were from loyal subjects of the Hawaiian Kingdom many of which were Asian because of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that threatened the voting rights of the Asian population in the Hawaiian Kingdom. These petitions were hand-carried to Washington and delivered to the United States Senate by a commission of Native Hawaiian delegates consisting of James Keauiluna Kaulia (president of Hui Aloha ʻĀina), David Kalauokalani (president of Hui Kālaiʻāina), William Auld, and John Richardson.

## Text

The text of the petitions is as follows:
"To his Excellency WILLIAM McKINLEY, President, and the Senate, of the United States of America. Greeting - Whereas there has been submitted to the Senate of the United States of America a treaty for the Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the said United States of America, for consideration at its regular session in December A.D. 1897; therefore,
We the undersigned, native Hawaiian citizens and residents of the district of.............Island of.........who are members of the Women's Hawaiian Patriotic League of the Hawaiian Islands, and others who are in sympathy with the said league, earnestly protest against the annexation of the said Hawaiian Islands to the United States of America in any form or shape."

## Effect

After receiving the petitions, the United States Senate in 1898 failed to approve the annexation treaty by the necessary two-thirds majority. Annexation was then effected under the Newlands Resolution.
# James Graeme (poet)

James Graeme (15 December 1749 – 26 July 1772) was a Scottish poet.

## Life

Graeme was born 15 December 1749, at Carnwath in Lanarkshire, the fourth and youngest son of William Graeme, a farmer of the middle class. As a child he was delicate, and his parents educated him for the ministry. After being taught to read in a dame's school, he was sent to the grammar schools of Carnwath, Libberton, and Lanark.
In 1767 he went to the University of Edinburgh, where he studied for three years. His friend and biographer, Robert Anderson (1750–1830), says that he excelled in classical learning, and made a special study of metaphysics, besides reading widely in general literature. In 1769 he was presented to a bursary at the University of St Andrews, but soon resigned it, and, returning to Edinburgh next year, entered the theological class. In 1771 he became tutor to the sons of Major Martin White of Milton, near Lanark. He died of tuberculosis at Carnwath on 26 July 1772.

## Works

His poems consisted of elegies and miscellaneous pieces. His poetical reputation is due to Anderson, who printed his friend's poems after his death, together with some of his own, in Poems on Several Occasions, Edinburgh, 1773. They reappeared in Robert Anderson's Poets of Great Britain, vol. xi., and in Richard Alfred Davenport's British Poets, vol. lxxi.; a selection is given in The Works of the British Poets, edited by Thomas Park, vol. v.