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# Ministry of Public Works and Housing (Syria)

The Ministry of Public Works and Housing is a department of the cabinet of Syria. It is based in Yusuf al-Azma Square, Damascus.

## Responsibilities

The ministry participated in planning of urban development affairs by drawing the general policy for sustainable urban planning and development, and preparing development plans and programs from the regional level to the local level.
And in the affairs of housing and real estate development, by working to provide the basic ingredients for the development of the housing sector to produce real estate products that meet the needs of society through real estate development projects.
As for public works affairs, it is through the implementation of construction projects in the administrative public sector agencies through the work of the public construction companies affiliated with the Ministry.

## Ministers

| Minister | Government | Term |
| Minister for Public Works and Housing |||
| Mansour Fadlallah Azzam | Riyad Hijab government First Wael al-Halqi government | 2012 to 2013 |
| Hussein Arnous | First Wael al-Halqi government Second Wael al-Halqi government Imad Khamis government | 2013 to 2018 |
| Suhail Mohammad Abdullatif | First Hussein Arnous government Second Hussein Arnous government | 2018 to 2024 |
| Hamza Ali | Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali government | 2024 |
| Mohamed Muslim | Syrian transitional government | 2024 to present |
# Joseph Padovan

Joseph Padovan (14 April 1943 - ) is a retired University of Akron Distinguished Professor known for pioneering finite element procedures for analysis of rolling tires.

## Education

Padovan received his B.S. (1965), M.S. (1967) and Ph.D. (1969) degrees in Mechanical Engineering, all from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

## Career

Padovan joined the University of Akron Mechanical Engineering faculty in 1970. He developed the first finite element procedures for the analysis of steady state rolling. These procedures are now widely used in the tire industry. He was an associate editor of the journal Tire Science and Technology for 36 years. In 2003, he famously was the last Tire Society speaker to present his work on an overhead projector.

## Awards

* 1986 - University Researcher of the Year, University of Akron.
* 1988 - A.T. Colwell Merit Award, Society of Automotive Engineers.
* 1988 - Certificate of Recognition, NASA.
* 1990 - Best Paper Award, Tire Society.
* 2014 - Tire Technology International Lifetime Achievement Award
* 2018 - Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award from Rubber Division of the ACS
# Sabburah

Sabburah (Arabic: صبورة) is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate, located east of Hama and 25 kilometers northeast of Salamiyah, on the western edge of the Syrian Desert. Nearby localities include Aqarib to the south, Mabujah to the southeast and Khunayfis and al-Saan to the northeast.
According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Sabburah had a population of 7,141 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of the Sabburah nahiyah ("subdistrict") which consisted of 19 localities with a collective population of 21,900 in 2004. Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.
Sabburah was founded in the 1860s by Ismaili migrants from other parts of northern Syria who chose the place because of worsening economic conditions in the interior parts of Syria, the low taxes that living in the Syrian Desert fringes offered, and the place's proximity to the Ismaili center of Salamiyah. The settlement struggled to thrive, however, due to threats from the Bedouin tribesmen which inhabited the area. Sabburah has a high-frequency station for international radio service.
# Guelph Rowing Club

Guelph Rowing Club (GRC) is a community rowing club located on Guelph Lake, a dammed reservoir on the Speed River, just north of the Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Rowing has been practised on Guelph Lake since the reservoir's construction in the mid 1970s. The current club was established in 1998 in coordination with the staging of rowing events for that year's Ontario Summer Games.
Notable members of the Guelph rowing community over the years include World Champion and Olympic rower Mel LaForme, Tim Briton-Foster as well as other Canadian National Team athletes including Adam Rabalski and Mark Henry.
Senior programmes including the University of Guelph Gryphons are currently headed up by Dr. David Leger, himself a graduate of Guelph University, who raced for Guelph in the first few years of rowing on the lake in the late 1970s.

## Affiliate programmes

A number of local high schools as well as the University of Guelph run rowing programmes as part of the Guelph Rowing Club. Many of the participants of these rowing teams train and race for Guelph outside of their school seasons.
University Programmes:
* University of Guelph Gryphons Rowing
Secondary School (high school) Programmes:

## Competitions

Guelph Rowing Club members take part in a number of competitions annually in the region and across Canada (including some US regattas) as well as hosting some of their own events. Notable events include:
* Guelph-McMaster Challenge - annual dual race between the University of Guelph and McMaster University that takes place in mid to late September. Events include Varsity 8+ (1 each for men and women), Junior Varsity 8+ (multiple boats of each gender allowed) and Novice 8+ (multiple boats of each gender allowed). Men's and Women's trophies are awarded to the team whose first crews place highest overall in all three events.
# Wauhillau, Oklahoma

Wauhillau is a census-designated place (CDP) in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 345 at the 2010 census.

## Geography

Wauhillau occupies a large rural area in western Adair County. Oklahoma State Highway 51 forms the northeastern edge of the CDP. It is 11 miles (18 km) west of Stilwell, the county seat, and 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Tahlequah in Cherokee County.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 7.93 square miles (20.55 km$^2$), of which 7.90 square miles (20.45 km$^2$) is land and 0.039 square miles (0.10 km$^2$), or 0.48%, is water.
# Thomas A. Sykes

Thomas A. Sykes (born c. 1835) was an American politician and tax official. An African-American, he was born into slavery. After the Civil War, he served as a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives for four one-year terms (1868–1872) and as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for one two-year term (1881–82). He represented Shelby County, Tennessee. He also served as a revenue collector and gauger. He lived in Nashville.
# Robert H. Dennis

Robert H. Dennis Sr. (c. 1846 - April 17, 1900) was a teacher and state legislator in Florida. In 1875 he represented Jackson County, Florida in the Florida House of Representatives.
He was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected to the state house along with Benjamin F. Livingston and William J. Purman.
# Michael Weyman

Michael Weyman (born 13 September 1984) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. Weyman is the older brother of former Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks player, Tim Weyman.

## Playing career

Born in Moruya, New South Wales, Weyman played his junior football for the Moruya Sharks. While attending Carroll College in 2001 and Erindale College in 2002, Weyman was selected for the Australian Schoolboys team and was captain of the team. In 2002 and 2003, Weyman was selected for the Junior Kangaroos team and played for the New South Wales U19s in 2003.

### National Rugby League

Weyman was signed by the Canberra Raiders. In round 10 of the 2003 NRL season he made his NRL debut for Canberra against the Penrith Panthers.
In May 2008, Weyman signed a two-year deal with the St. George Illawarra Dragons starting in 2009, despite being offered a one-year extension with the Raiders. In 2008, Weyman was suspended for six weeks after punching Gold Coast Titans forward Daniel Conn, breaking Conn's nose and leading the media to brand Weyman as a "thug". The incident was the low-point of Weyman's 2008 season and he played only seven NRL matches for Canberra that year.
In 2009, Weyman was selected for Country in the City vs Country Origin match on 8 May 2009. Later that month Weyman was named in the 17-man squad to represent New South Wales in the opening game of the 2009 State of Origin series. Weyman made his Origin debut on 3 June 2009, in Melbourne at Etihad Stadium. Weyman missed the final game of the Origin series with an ankle injury.
For the 2010 ANZAC Test, Weyman was selected to play for Australia from the interchange bench in their victory against New Zealand. Weyman played 2 games for New South Wales in the 2010 State of Origin series. Weyman played in the 2010 NRL Grand Final for St. George Illawarra against the Sydney Roosters. Weyman and Conn went head to head again in the Grand Final with Conn being put on report for a late shot on Weyman in the first half. St. George would win the decider 32–8 at ANZ Stadium.
In February 2011, Weyman played in the 2011 World Club Challenge for the St. George Illawarra Dragons against the Wigan Warriors, the Dragons winning 21–15. In an interview with the NRL regarding Weyman, Dragons coach Wayne Bennett said "I'd have him in any team I coached, I wouldn't have a hesitation."
In 2012, Weyman tore his anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee and had to have reconstructive surgery. He was ruled out for the rest of the 2012 NRL season having only played 10 games.

### Super League

In July 2013, Weyman signed a two-year deal with Hull Kingston Rovers for the 2014 Super League season. During the 2014 season, he scored four tries in four consecutive games which placed him 2nd in the Hull Kingston Rovers try charts for a brief period of time. Weyman retired in March 2015.
# Hereford Rowing Club

Hereford Rowing Club is a rowing club on the River Wye, based at 37 Greyfriars Avenue, Hereford, Herefordshire, England.

## History

The first Hereford Regatta took place in 1859 and the creation of the rowing club took place at the Saracen's Head Inn on Wednesday 26 June 1861, with the first President being F. Kempson Esq.
The present clubhouse was built in 1958 and the eights boathouse was built three years before in 1958, on the same site as the original boathouse. The club won the prestigious Britannia Challenge Cup at the Henley Regatta in 1971 and produced a national champion crew in 2010.

## Honours
### British champions

| Year | Winning crew/s |
| 1975 | Men J16 4- |
| 1977 | Men J18 8+ |
| 1983 | Men J18 2- |
| 1985 | Men J18 2- |
| 1996 | Women J14 1x |
| 1997 | Women 2x |
| 2000 | Men J14 1x |
| 2001 | Women 2x, Men J14 1x |
| 2003 | Women J18 1x |
| 2010 | Open 4x |
| 2024 | Open club 4+ |

### Henley Royal Regatta

| Year | Winning crew |
| 1971 | Britannia Challenge Cup |

### Notable members

* Colin Barratt
* Clive Roberts
# Sher Bahadur Thapa

Sher Bahadur Thapa (Nepali: शेरबहादुर थापा) VC (20 November 1921 – 19 September 1944) was a Nepalese Gurkha recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

## Details

He belonged to the Thapa Chhetri of Lamichhane Thapa clan and was a son of Ramdhoj Thapa, a permanent resident of Ghalechap of Tanahu, Nepal. Thapa enlisted in the British Indian Army on 20 November 1942 and was a 22-year-old rifleman in the 1st Battalion of the 9th Gurkha Rifles during World War II, when the following deed took place at the Battle of San Marino, for which he was awarded the VC.
His citation in the London Gazette reads:
   On 18/19 September 1944 at San Marino, Italy, when a company of the 9th Gurkha Rifles encountered bitter opposition from a German prepared position, Rifleman Sher Bahadur Thapa and his section commander, who was afterwards badly wounded, charged and silenced an enemy machine-gun. The rifleman then went on alone to the exposed part of a ridge where, ignoring a hail of bullets, he silenced more machine-guns, covered a withdrawal and rescued two wounded men before he was killed.
His Victoria Cross is currently held by his regiment 9 Gorkha Rifles.
# Robert Thompson (Mississippi politician)

Robert Thompson (born c. 1830) was a state legislator in Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1874 and 1875 from Lowndes County, Mississippi. He was born in South Carolina and worked as a laborer.
He served on a committee with six others to investigate contested election cases.
He later moved to Noxubee County, Mississippi where he lived with his wife Eliza and children.
# Larry DeShazor

Larry DeShazor was an American politician from Michigan. A member of the Michigan State House of Representatives, DeShazor left the state house in 2011 after an unsuccessful run for the State Senate.

## Political life

DeShazor ran for the Michigan State House of Representatives in 2008 and was elected, becoming one of two African American Republicans elected to the Michigan House of Representatives since 1904, the other being Paul H. Scott.
# Saharo-Arabian region

In botanical geography, the Saharo-Arabian region is a floristic region in the Holarctic kingdom, covered by hot deserts, semideserts and savanna. The region occupies the temperate parts of the Sahara desert, Sinai Peninsula, Arabian Peninsula (geographically defined), Southern Palestine and Lower Mesopotamia.
The region was proposed by Armen Takhtajan.

## Flora

Plant life usually consists of only a handful of species, which are mostly found in natural depressions in the ground or and rocky pavements. Much of its flora is shared with the neighboring Mediterranean and Irano-Turanian regions of the Holarctic kingdom and Sudano-Zambezian region of the Paleotropical kingdom.
However, about a quarter of the species, especially in the families Asteraceae, Brassicaceae and Chenopodiaceae, are endemic. Some of the endemic genera are Nucularia, Fredolia, Agathophora, Muricaria, Nasturtiopsis, Zilla, Oudneya, Foleyola, Lonchophora, Gymnarrhena, Lifago.
# Mic Looby

Mic Looby (born 1969) is an Australian author and illustrator.
A former guidebook writer for Lonely Planet, his debut novel Paradise Updated – a satire about the inner workings of a guidebook company – was published in 2009 by Affirm Press. Looby is also a columnist with the Australian chapter of The Big Issue magazine and has illustrated three titles in the It's True! series of children's non-fiction books published by Allen & Unwin.
# Roderic Quirk

Roderic Quirk is an Emeritus University of Akron professor noted for contributions to anionic polymerization technology that is used to produce butadiene, isoprene and styrene homo and block copolymers.

## Education

Quirk completed a BS in Chemistry in 1963 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1965, he earned a doctorate in organic chemistry under advisor David Curtin at the University of Illinois. In 1967, he completed a postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh under Edward Arnett.

## Career

Quirk's first academic appointment began in 1969 at the University of Arkansas and continued until 1978. In the summer of 1974, Quirk worked at Phillips Petroleum in Henry Hsieh's anionic polymerization lab. In 1978, he took a senior research position at the Midland Macromolecular Institute. In 1983, Quirk joined the University of Akron.

## Notable Students

* Frederick Ignatz-Hoover - Eastman technology fellow and 9th editor of Rubber Chemistry and Technology

## Awards

* 1990 - Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science
* 2004 - George Stafford Whitby award of the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society
* 2019 – Charles Goodyear Medal of the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society
* 2019 – National Academy of Inventors
# Martin Klein (footballer)

Martin Klein (born 2 July 1984) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

## Club career

Born in Brno, Klein started his career playing for Boby Brno, then he joined Sparta Prague in 2000. On 27 February 2002, he scored a goal in a 2–1 loss against Panathinaikos in the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League, at the age of 17 years and 241 days. Later on, he transferred to Teplice, then he joined Konyaspor and Ferencvárosi, before returning to Teplice in 2013.
In February 2014, Klein signed for Kazakhstan Premier League side FC Kaisar.
In the summer 2019, Klein joined SK Rakovník. On 30 December 2019, Klein moved to German Landesliga Bayern-Nordost club Kickers Selb.

## International career

Klein was part of Czech Republic U-21. On 5 June 2009, he made his debut for the Czech Republic national team in a friendly match against Malta, which ended in a 1–0 win.

## Honours

Sparta Prague
* Czech First League: 2000–01, 2002–03
Teplice
* Czech Cup: 2008–09
Ferencváros
* Hungarian League Cup: 2012–13
# Jackie Vaughn III

Jackie Vaughn III (November 17, 1917 – September 13, 2006) was a Democratic member of both houses of the Michigan Legislature for over three decades.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1917, Vaughn moved to Detroit in 1944. He studied at Oberlin and Hillsdale colleges before being a Fulbright Scholar and fellow at Oxford University. Vaughn was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 1966 and served six terms before his election to the Michigan Senate.
One hallmark of his tenure was the establishment of a holiday in Michigan to honor Martin Luther King Jr. He was also known for his devotion to the Hartford Memorial Baptist Church. He was also elected president pro tempore of the Senate in 1983, becoming the first African-American to hold the position, and was later named associate president pro tempore.
Vaughn suffered a stroke in 2000 after checking himself into the hospital in Lansing and was excused from Senate session for the remaining two years of his term. When he left the Senate in 2002, the Senate recognized him as having "'fought the good fight' on behalf of the people of Detroit," and that his "consistent efforts on behalf of young people, his tireless leadership in promoting the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, and his advocacy of programs to help the needy have earned him widespread respect."
Vaughn was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, the Elks, and a Freemason. He died on September 13, 2006, aged 88.
# Edward Mosley (MP for Preston)

Sir Edward Mosley (died 1638) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1624.
Mosley was the son of Sir Nicholas Mosley who was Lord Mayor of London in 1599. He was a barrister at-law and was appointed Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1614. In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Preston. He was knighted in December 1614. He was re-elected MP for Preston in 1621 and in 1624.
Mosley was later of Rolleston Staffordshire. He died without issue in 1638.
Mosley was the brother of Rowland Mosley, of Hough, Staffordshire, whose son Edward inherited the Rolleston estate and was created baronet in 1640.
# Kim Pickering

Kim Louise Pickering is a New Zealand composite materials engineer. She is currently a full professor at the University of Waikato.

## Academic career

After a BSc(ENG) at Imperial College London, three years at Plessey Research Caswell and a PhD at the University of Surrey, Pickering started working at the University of Waikato in 1994 and rose to full professor in 2014.
Much of Pickering's research involves 3D printing of "recyclable, biodegradable and bio-derived composite materials" and she has been a major proponent of recycling.
In 2017 she won the RJ Scott Medal from the Royal Society of New Zealand. Also in 2017, Pickering was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.

## Selected works

* Pickering, K.L.; Efendy, M.G. Aruan; Le, T.M. (2016). "A review of recent developments in natural fibre composites and their mechanical performance". Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing. 83: 98–112. doi:10.1016/j.compositesa.2015.08.038. hdl:10289/9787.
* Pickering, K.L.; Beckermann, G.W.; Alam, S.N.; Foreman, N.J. (2007). "Optimising industrial hemp fibre for composites". Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing. 38 (2): 461–468. doi:10.1016/j.compositesa.2006.02.020. hdl:10289/9805.
* Beckermann, G.W.; Pickering, K.L. (2008). "Engineering and evaluation of hemp fibre reinforced polypropylene composites: Fibre treatment and matrix modification". Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing. 39 (6): 979–988. doi:10.1016/j.compositesa.2008.03.010.
* Pickering, Kim L. (2008). Properties and performance of natural-fibre composites. doi:10.1533/9781845694593. ISBN 978-1-84569-267-4.
* Pickering, K.L.; Abdalla, A.; Ji, C.; McDonald, A.G.; Franich, R.A. (2003). "The effect of silane coupling agents on radiata pine fibre for use in thermoplastic matrix composites". Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing. 34 (10): 915–926. doi:10.1016/S1359-835X(03)00234-3. hdl:10289/9806.
# Samuel Benjamin Thompson

Samuel Benjamin Thompson (October 11, 1837 - August 1909) was a lawyer, judicial official, and Reconstruction Era politician in South Carolina.
He was a delegate to the 1865 South Carolina Constitutional Constitutional Convention. He was also an elected member of the 48th general assembly from 1868 to 1870, one of the four representatives for Richland County. He served as a state legislator for six years as well as a justice of the peace for eight years.
He was the uncle of Charleston doctor Alonzo Clifton McClennan. He married Eliza Henrietta Montgomery and had nine children. Their eldest child, Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen, became an educator and author.
He and eight other reconstruction era legislators are buried at Randolph Cemetery.
# Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church (Murfreesboro, Tennessee)

The Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church at 224 S. Maney Avenue. It was built in 1889 and added to the National Register in 1995.
It is a one-story brick building on a brick foundation. The congregation, established in 1866, is the oldest African-American congregation in Rutherford County.