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# 11th Armored Division (Syria)

11th Armored Division (Arabic: الفرقة 11 مدرعة) was an elite formation of the Syrian Army. In 2019, the 11th Armored Division participated in the Operation Dawn of Idlib. The division was established in 1982 and was part of the 3rd Army Corps.

## Command structure
### 11th Armored Division (2019)

* 60th Armored Brigade
* 67th Armored Brigade
* 87th Mechanized Brigade
* 89th Artillery Regiment
* 135th Artillery Regiment
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## Combat history

In 1982, after the Battle of Sultan Yacoub in Southern Lebanon between the Syrian and Israeli forces, Syrians captured 11 Israeli M48 Patton tanks. For that, late Commander in Chief President of Syria Hafez al-Assad instructed the establishment of a new armored division, with the number designation 11.

### Syrian Civil War

The 11th Armored Division is part of 3rd Army Corps, as it was a reserve armored division and one of the best armored divisions of the Syrian Army. It was placed in active duty during the crisis. The 11th Armored Division first took part in combat operations from autumn 2011 to spring 2012, when it was part of the Army's offensive in Idlib Governorate. Until then, several units of the division took part in the most complex Siege of Abu al-Duhur Airbase between 2012 and 2015, where the army eventually suffered heavy losses and defeat.
In 2015, the division took part in the spring and autumn campaign, which ended with the defeat of the army forces and the loss of the city and province of Idlib, the Al-Ghab Plains and part of the province of Hama In 2016, the division led the Syrian Army's counter offensive in Hama., which featured the participation of the division's 87th Mechanized Brigade and 47th Regiment. During the operation, the unit lost its commander Brig. Gen. Ali Khallouf and Maj. Gen. Ali Sharaf Makhlouf, commander of 87th Brigade.
In 2017, the division took part of two government offensives, during which the Army recaptured all lost territory in previous years. Units of the 87th Brigade have held the highly contested Suran-Masasneh axis since 2016. Several members of the 87th Brigade died in a March 3, 2019 raid on a checkpoint there. Meanwhile, the 60th and 67th Brigades and the 135th Regiment have mostly fought on the eastern edges of the Homs Governorate, particularly around Palmyra as well as throughout Deir ez-Zor. Since 2019, the 11th Division has been reorganized with Russian help and supervision.
# John L. Ridgway

John Livzey Ridgway (28 February 1859, in Mount Carmel, Illinois – 27 December 1947, in Glendale, California) (also known as John Livsey Ridgway or John Livesy Ridgway) was an American scientific illustrator and brother of ornithologist Robert Ridgway. Ridgway collaborated with his brother on ornithological illustration and published his own works. Ridgway was born in Mount Carmel, Illinois to David and Henrietta Reed Ridgway, and attended public schools in Illinois. Robert Ridgway brought him to work as a copyist and draftsman for the United States National Museum in the 1880s. Ridgway was a draftsman for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from 1884 to 1918, and its chief illustrator from 1918 to 1920. He also worked for the Carnegie Institution of Washington. In 1920 he moved to California, where he worked for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the California Institute of Technology, working for the latter institution up until his death.
John Ridgway illustrated several works in the fields of ornithology and paleontology. Notable among these were:
* Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska (1886)
* Report upon Natural History Collections Made in Alaska between the Years 1877 and 1881 (1887) .
* Fish and game of the State of New York: Seventh Report Forest, Fish and Game Commission (circa 1901).
* A series of watercolors of eggs of North American birds that were used as the basis of chromolithographic plates in Charles Bendire's Life Histories (1892–1895)
* Illustrations of Pleistocene fossils at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (California) in the 1920s.
Ridgway authored Scientific Illustration (Stanford University Press, circa 1938) and The preparation of illustrations for reports of the United States Geological survey (USGS, 1920).
# Next Step Realty

Next Step Realty is an American real estate brokerage firm based in New York City, New York. The agents help young professionals rent and buy apartments in New York City. Many of their clients are recent college and post-graduate alumni relocating to New York City, as first-time New York City renters.
In 2015, ABC Family announced that a business-based docu-series would be created to follow Next Step Realty and their clients, in an unscripted, original format. It was not renewed after its only season.

## History

Blair Brandt and Belton Baker co-founded Next Step Realty, following a soft launch in 2010. After working in the real estate market in Florida, Brandt noticed an opportunity to assist young professionals in finding their first urban homes and in particular a lack of ethical, customer-friendly rental services in New York City.
Brandt moved to New York City, following a $100,000 capital infusion from angel investor Jason Briggs, who was then elected to be chairman, becoming a day to day presence 'offering a more experienced perspective', and Brandt's primary partner. The soft launch led to the company expanding quickly, and Brandt, aged 23, was listed as the featured real estate entrepreneur in Forbes annual 30 under 30.
Shortly after the launch of the company, the founders distributed a mailshot to peers and other college friends. Within the first month, the company had 100,000 visits to their website. In late 2012, the company announced the acquisition of one of their competitors in the New York City realtor market, Post Graduate Apartments.

## Locations

In 2014, the firm opened its first two storefront locations in New York City, in the East Village & Upper East Side of Manhattan. In March 2015, Next Step opened its third storefront location, and new flagship office, in the West Village of Manhattan, at the former townhouse of famed preservationist Jane Jacobs.

## Business model

One of the entry routes to the market for the company was to increase the range of amenities offered to customers while also charging a lower percentage of the broker fee, a dynamic made possible by the firm's high customer conversion rate.
The staff was predominantly made up of people in their mid-20s, who had experienced similar trials to their clients. In the company's first year, they grew to a staff of around 40 people.
During the same year, the company also announced a seed investment of $1 million to help expand the business to other cities in the United States.

## Next Step Realty: NYC

In April 2015, Disney announced the launch of a new show, Next Step Realty: NYC. The show would air on ABC Family, premiering Tuesday August 11, 2015 at 9pm ET on the cable network.
# Victory Challenge

Victory Challenge was a Swedish yacht racing team that competed in 2003 America's Cup and 2007 America's Cup. The team was initiated in 1999 by Swedish businessman Jan Stenbeck, and after his death in August 2002, his son Hugo Stenbeck took over.
They also participated in the Louis Vuitton Cup 2007, the challenger selection series held prior to the 2007 America's Cup. It was sponsored primarily by Red Bull.
# Sir John Shaw, 1st Baronet

Sir John Shaw, 1st Baronet (c. 1615 – 1680) of Eltham Lodge, Kent was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1679.
Shaw was the second son of London vintner Robert Shaw (d. 1678) and his wife Elizabeth Domilowe, daughter of John Domilowe of London. He made a considerable fortune in business and provided Charles II during exile with considerable sums of money. After the Restoration, he was made one of the Farmers of the Customs of London.
He was knighted on 28 July 1660. In 1661, he was elected Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis in the Cavalier Parliament. From 1663 he leased, from the Crown, the Manor of Eltham which included the then derelict "Kings House" or Eltham Palace and built a new manor house, Eltham Lodge, on the estate. He was created baronet of Eltham on 15 April 1665. In 1667, he rebuilt the north aisle of Eltham Church.
He was appointed a Gentleman of the privy chamber from June 1660 until his death. He was a commissioner of customs from September 1660 to 1662, customs farmer from 1662 to 1671 and a commissioner of trade from November 1660 to 1668. He was also joint paymaster of the Dunkirk garrison from December 1660 to 1662, surveyor of shipping from 1661 to his death, assistant Royal Adventurers into Africa by 1664 to 1671 and surveyor of woods and forests c.1667.
He was made Lieutenant-colonel of the White Regiment of foot militia of London from 1660 to c.1665 and a commissioner for assessment for London (1661–63), for Kent (1663–64) and (1667 to his death), and for London and Surrey (1664–69). He was appointed commissioner for loyal and indigent officers for London and Westminster (1662), collector of customs for London from 1669 to his death and commissioner for recusants for Kent in 1675.
He married twice. He had married on 28 October 1649, Sarah Ashe, daughter of Joseph Ashe, of Freshford, Somerset. She died in December 1662, and was buried at St Mildred's, Bread Street. They had a son John, who was to succeed his father as 2nd Baronet.
He married secondly at Eltham on 24 June 1663, Bridget, Dowager Viscountess Kilmorey, daughter of Sir William Drury, of Besthorpe, Norfolk, and his wife Mary Cokayne, daughter of William Cockayne, merchant, of London. They had two children, Charles and Elizabeth.
Shaw died at the age of 64 in Great Southampton (or Bloomsbury) Square, St Giles in the Fields, London and was buried at Eltham on 6 March 1680. His widow married as her third husband Sir John Baber, physician, on 15 February 1681, at St Bride's Church. She died in 1696 and was buried alongside Shaw at Eltham on 11 July 1696.
# Mary Wright Gill

Mary Wright Gill (née Wright; May 19, 1867 – October 30, 1929) was an American scientific illustrator who worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) and other government agencies in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. She was married to BAE illustrator and photographer DeLancey Walker Gill.

## Early life

Mary Wright Gill was born on May 19, 1867, in Washington, D.C. She was the daughter of Minna Wright (d. 1908) and had a brother, John Newton Wright. As a girl, due to health issues, she was taken out of school and enrolled in the School of Design at the University of Cincinnati, and became the youngest student ever to enroll in that program. When she returned to Washington, she began drawing on contract with the BAE under the direction of John Wesley Powell.
Some of her early work was featured as part of the Smithsonian's contributions to the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States. In 1891, her work was featured in an exhibition for the Society of Washington Artists in the Woodward & Lothrop gallery. In an article about the exhibition, a reporter noted that (then) Mary Irwin Wright, through paid black and white illustrations for magazines like the Century and St. Nicholas and commissioned works while abroad in London, "has already made considerable reputation and enough money to buy a house on Capitol Hill." She graduated from the University of Cincinnati School of Design with a degree in drawing and design in 1893. She also studied in New York with Kenyon Cox and in Washington with Edwin H. Blashfield.

## Career

Mary Wright Gill was renowned for her drawings of "fidelity and accuracy." She worked as a contract artist for the Bureau of American Ethnology and produced many of the illustrations used in the BAE's annual reports, such as Matilda Coxe Stevenson's The Zuni Indians. She worked primarily in pen and ink, graphite, and watercolor. Her watercolor illustrations were sometimes composites based on series of photographs, lending them a hyperreal quality.
Some of her illustrations, like the photographs taken by Stevenson, were not made with the same ethical protocols observed by ethnographers and documentarians today, and are considered culturally sensitive by contemporary Pueblo communities.
In addition to those for the BAE, she illustrated many notable publications and books, including the Manual of the Grasses, by Albert Spear Hitchcock. During her career, she had formative friendships with prominent women illustrators such as Mary Agnes Chase; the two were among a group of women who had created a niche in the government for this professional line of work. They also had a playful relationship; Mary Wright Gill illustrated a children's book Chase created of an orphaned squirrel she "adopted" and named "Toodles."

## Death and legacy

Mary Wright Gill died on October 30, 1929, in Washington, D.C.
# Ally Ryan

Ally Ryan is an American singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles. She gained recognition for having written Kat Deluna's single "Waves" which peaked at number one in Japan. Her debut single "Wasted" has been successful, charting on multiple Billboard charts.

## Early life and career

At around the age of three, she got her first microphone and started writing songs at the age of thirteen. She began her career as a songwriter, writing songs for artists.
She described the inspiration behind her debut single "Waves" as a "toxic relationship" she was in, and the song as 'catchy, fun and relatable'. She told Digital Journal: "It is about a love that is so intense that it becomes toxic." In August 2017, she released an acoustic version and a month later, a remixes EP of the song. A music video for the song was also published.

## Discography
### As lead artist

| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
| Title | Year | US Club | Album |
| "Wasted" | 2017 | 24 | Non-album single |
# John V. Krutilla

John Vasil Krutilla (February 13, 1922 – June 27, 2003) was an American environmental economist, known for inventing the concept of existence value, the idea that undisturbed wilderness has economic value ("nonuse value"). According to Kenneth Arrow,
   "John Krutilla can fairly be said to have created or stimulated most of the agenda of modern environmental economics. . . . He pioneered in developing the idea later called 'existence value,' the value generated by the mere existence of an amenity, such as an unspoiled wilderness or species of animal or plants."
Krutilla was born in Tacoma, Washington; his parents were farmers who had immigrated there from Slovakia. After serving in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II, he earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Reed College in 1949, a master's degree from Harvard University in 1951, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1952. He worked from 1952 to 1955 at the Tennessee Valley Authority, before going to Resources for the Future where he worked until his retirement in 1988.
In Krutilla's essay, "Conservation Reconsidered," he introduced the idea of existence value.
With Allen V. Kneese, he was the inaugural winner of the Volvo Environment Prize in 1990.
# Olive MacFarland

Olive Knowles MacFarland (née Hornbrook; 1872–1962) was an American artist and illustrator. She attended Ohio Wesleyan College and earned degrees in physiology at Stanford University. She created watercolor drawings to illustrate the scientific publications of her husband, American malacologist Frank Mace MacFarland, and prepared his notes on opisthobranch mollusks for publication after his death.

## Biography

Olive Knowles Hornbrook was born in West Virginia in June 1872. She was educated in Cambridge, Ohio. After earning a B.L. from Ohio Wesleyan College in 1893, she taught Latin at the Barnesville, Ohio, High School from 1893 to 1898. On August 27, 1902, Hornbrook married Professor Frank Mace MacFarland of Stanford University. She studied physiology at Stanford, earning her B.A. in 1906 and her M.A. in 1908.
The MacFarlands collaborated closely in studying mollusks in the Monterey Bay area. Olive MacFarland was an accomplished artist and created watercolor drawings to illustrate Frank MacFarland's publications. After Frank MacFarland's death, Olive MacFarland spent ten years organizing his notes and manuscripts for "Studies of opisthobranchiate mollusks of the Pacific coast of North America," which was published in the Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences. She also prepared the illustrations.
MacFarland died in 1962 in San Mateo, California. In 2006, the MacFarland home on the Stanford campus (designed in 1914 by Arthur Bridgman Clark) was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
# Amelia Vega

Amelia Vega Polanco (Spanish pronunciation:; born 7 November 1984) is a Dominican actress, model, author, singer and beauty queen. At the age of 18, she won the Miss Universe 2003 pageant, becoming the first ever Miss Universe from the Dominican Republic, as well as the youngest winner since 1994.

## Early life

Amelia Vega was born in Santiago de los Caballeros on November 7, 1984. Her father Otto Miguel Vega Rasuk is a general physician with offices in New York and Miami. Her mother, Patricia Amelia Polanco Álvarez, is one of the first women to graduate as a pilot in the Dominican Republic and represented the country in the 1980 Miss World pageant. Both of her parents have origins in Santiago de los Caballeros.

## Miss Universe

After winning the Miss Dominican Republic title, Vega represented the Dominican Republic in the Miss Universe 2003 pageant held in Panama City on 3 June 2003. She became the first delegate from this country to win the title. At the time she was the youngest woman since 1994 to win Miss Universe and, as of 2024, is the tallest winner, standing at 6'2".

## Music

After recording her first demo at 15 years old and starting her artistic career in musicals in her hometown at the same age, Amelia's first single "Pasa Un Segundito" was released by iTunes on 26 April 2010. It became a top Latin song in just two days. A couple of months later, she released an environmental song, "Smog". She announced on her Twitter account that her complete album Agua Dulce would be released on 30 August 2011, first on iTunes. She began promoting her music in Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Panama, Dominican Republic "where she opened the concert for Marc Anthony and Chayanne in front of a crowd of 50,000 people".

## Personal life

On 24 December 2011, Vega married Dominican NBA player Al Horford in Santo Domingo, after two years of dating. They have five children together: Ean, Alía, Ava, Nova and Mila.
Vega is niece-in-law of the Grammy Award–winning Dominican singer Juan Luis Guerra. She attended and graduated from Barbizon Modeling and Acting School in Santo Domingo.
Vega is the sixth generation of women in her family who bears Amelia either as their first name or middle name.

## Filmography

* Capitán Avispa (2024) .... Amelia Vega as (Polibya Néctar)
* Homie Spumoni (2006) .... Amelia Vega as (Chanice)
* The Lost City (2005) .... Minerva Eros

## Books

In 2019, Amelia Vega published her first children's book, titled Un día en la vida de Pichín, in support of children with cancer.
# St Joseph's (Waltham Cross)

St Joseph's is a Gaelic football club in the town of Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, England.

## History

Founded in April 2005 by Noel Griffin, a native of Carraroe, County Galway (from where the club takes its colours), to introduce youngsters in the area to the sport of Gaelic football. The club was named after the St Joseph's Parish of Waltham Cross and was then accepted into the Hertfordshire Gaelic Athletic Association as a Junior club. Since then the club has regularly fielded Under-8, Under-10, Under-12, Under-14 and Under-16 sides in the County Competitions with the club lifting its first Trophy in September 2010 when the Under-16's won the County Cup. The club fielded a senior side for the first time in July 2011. Griffin won the Broxbourne Coach of the Year for 2013. In 2014, the U-14 side won both the League and County Championships for the first time.

## Honours

Under-16's - Hertfordshire GAA County Cup (2010)
Under-14's - Hertfordshire GAA County Cup (2014), Hertfordshire GAA League (2014)

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# United Jihad Council

The United Jihad Council, also known as the Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC), is an Islamist Jihadist organisation formed by the Pakistan Army for unified command and control over the anti-Indian militant groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir. It was formed in the summer of 1994 and is currently headed by Syed Salahuddin, the leader of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen. The organisation was created to unify and focus efforts of various armed militant groups fighting against Indian rule in Kashmir. This made distribution of resources like arms, ammunition, propaganda materials and communications more streamlined. It also made it easier to coordinate and pool resources of various militant groups to collect information, plan operations and strike at targets of military importance inside Indian administered Kashmir.
The militant group has 14 affiliates. Some of the group members are: Harakat-ul-Ansar, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen, Al-Jihad, Al-Barq, Al-Badr, Ikhwan-ul-Mussalmin, Pakistani Armed Forces, and Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen. By early 1999, as many as fifteen organisations were affiliated with the Council, though of these only five were considered influential: Lashkar-e-Toiba, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Al-Badr, and Tehrik-i-Jihad. Many of these organisations are recognised as terrorist organisations by the United States and the UN.
In June 2012 in an interview, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin accepted that Pakistan had been backing Hizbul Mujahideen for fighting in Kashmir. He had threatened to start attacking Pakistan if the latter stopped backing the separatist militants in Jammu and Kashmir. He claimed the militants were fighting "Pakistan's war".
   We are fighting Pakistan's war in Kashmir and if it withdraws its support, the war would be fought inside Pakistan
The group claimed responsibility for the 2016 Pathankot attack, carried out on Pathankot Air Base administered by the Indian Air Force on 3 January 2016. The incident claimed 14 casualties, including 7 security personnel, 1 civilian, and 6 attackers.