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# Rancho San Andrés

Rancho San Andrés was an 8,911-acre (36.06 km$^2$) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Cruz County, California, given in 1833 by Governor José Figueroa to José Joaquín Castro. The grant on Monterey Bay extended from La Selva Beach on the north to Watsonville Slough on the south. Rancho Aptos, belonging to Castro's son Rafael Castro, formed the north boundary of the grant.

## History

José Joaquín Castro (1768–1838), the son of Joaquin Ysidro de Castro and Maria Marina Botiller, had come as a boy with his family to California from Mexico with the De Anza Expedition in 1775. His brother José Mariano Castro (1765–1828) was the grantee of Rancho Las Animas; his brother Carlos Antonio Castro (b.1775) was the grantee of Rancho San Francisco de las Llagas; and his brother Francisco María Castro (1775 – 1831) was the grantee of Rancho San Pablo. Jose Joaquin Castro, after serving as a soldier for 13 years, came with his wife Maria Antonia Amador (1780–1827) to settle the new community of Villa de Branciforte in 1798. Maria Antonia Amador died in 1827, and Castro married Maria Rosario Briones (b. 1816) in 1830. Castro received the two square league Rancho San Andrés grant in 1833. In 1838, José Joaquín Castro died of smallpox.
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho San Andrés was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853, and the grant was patented to Guadalupe Castro and Juan José Castro et al. (the 13 children of José Joaquín Castro) in 1876.
After the patent was issued, there was a boundary dispute with José Amesti's Rancho Los Corralitos which adjoined Rancho San Andrés on the east.
In 1877, a partition suit (Briody vs. Hale) was brought and Rancho San Andrés was subdivided.

## Historic sites of the Rancho

* Castro Adobe. Rancho San Andrés Castro Adobe.
# Rancho Arroyo de la Laguna

Rancho Arroyo de la Laguna was a 4,418-acre (17.88 km$^2$) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Cruz County, California given in 1840 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Gil Sanchez. The grant extended along the Pacific coast south-east from Rancho San Vicente and San Vicente Creek (which runs through present day Davenport) to Laguna Creek and Rancho Refugio.

## History

The one square league grant was made in 1840 by Governor Alvarado to Gil Sanchez, a tithe collector at Branciforte. In 1842, Gil Sanchez killed Fulgencio Robles, the terror of all the region, while he was disturbing a party of gamblers. After a hearing, held in Monterey, Gil Sanchez was ordered to be "exiled 20 leagues from Branciforte and pay 200 Pesos to the children of Fulgencio Robles" in the death of their father.
The grant was acquired by James and Squire Williams. James Williams (1814–1858) and his three brothers (John (1816–), Isaac (1823–1856), and Squire (1825–)), came to California with the Chiles-Walker party in 1843. The Williams brothers settled at Sutter's Fort where James worked as a blacksmith and John as a tanner. In 1845, James was married to Mary Patterson (1828–1851) who had come to California with the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party of 1844. The Williams brothers and the Patterson family settled in the Santa Cruz area.
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Arroyo de la Laguna was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,. The Williams unsuccessfully tried have the grant defined by boundaries (San Vicente Creek to Laguna Creek) rather than by size (one square league), and the grant was patented to James and Squire Williams in 1882.
Most of this property was eventually acquired by Jeremiah Respini and became part of the Coast Dairies Property.
# John Denison (engineer)

John Burton Denison CM (June 30, 1916 – January 6, 2001) was a Canadian ice road engineer who operated in the Northwest Territories in the 1950s to 1970s.

## Biography

Denison was born in British Columbia in 1916. His father Norman Lippincott Denison was descended from the affluent Denison family of Toronto. After training in mechanics, Denison joined the Canadian Army during World War II. After the war, Denison joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and was then attached from 1946 to the RCMP as a constable in Yellowknife.
A year later, he was involved in a search for a missing fur trapper on the Barren Lands First Nation, and after freezing his fingers, feet, and face, decided the RCMP was not the career for him. A year later, he resigned from the RCMP, and his fiancée Hannah and he left Yellowknife for Edmonton, where they married.
In search of work, Denison returned to the north in 1947 and worked on the cat trains supplying the mining camps with equipment. He eventually became associated with Byers Transport Limited, with whom he engineered a network of winter ice roads throughout the Northwest Territories to service various mines (including Port Radium, Discovery Mine, and Tundra Mine).
While Denison was not the first to attempt truck freighting on winter roads into Yellowknife (that honour goes to Al Hamilton of Grimshaw Trucking in the mid-1950s), he perfected the art of constructing ice roads and built them into some of the most isolated parts of the subarctic. His major interest was hauling around large buildings on ice roads between mining camps. Denison's exploits were the topic of Edith Iglauer's nonfiction book, Denison's Ice Road (1974).
On May 6, 1998, John Denison was awarded the Order of Canada for his work on the ice roads in the 1950s-1970s.

## Death

Denison died at his home in Kelowna on January 6, 2001, aged 84, survived by his widow Hannah and four children.
# W. Z. Ahmed

Wahiduddin Ziauddin Ahmed (1916 – 15 April 2007) was a Pakistani filmmaker, known primarily for his work in the 1940s. After the partition of India, Ahmed continued to make movies in Pakistan but was able to make only two films.

## Career in British India

W.Z. Ahmed was born in Gujarat in 1916. He was active as a film-maker in pre-Partition India, being an established personality in the film industry in Bombay and Pune. Apart from his Shalimar Pictures in Pune, he also ran a studio in Madras. He wrote the dialogues for the 1940 movie Kumkum the Dancer. Between 1942 and 1947, he produced and directed Ek Raat (1942), Man Ki Jeet (1944), Prem Sangeet, Prithaviraj-Samyukta and Meera Bai (1947). Some noted poets and writers of the Progressive Writers' Association were employed by Shalimar Pictures studio including Josh Malihabadi, Krishan Chander, Ramanand Sagar, Akhtar ul Iman and Saghar Nizami. W.Z. Ahmed's last movie produced in India, which depicted Hindu devotee Meera Bai, was met with ferocious criticism along communal lines in Filmindia whose editor Baburao Patel stated that 'Muslim "Meerabai" grossly slanders Hinduism!'.

## Career in Pakistan

After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, Ahmed was a prominent cultural personality in Pakistan for a few years, although his cinematic career did not develop well in Pakistan. He established W.Z. Studios in Lahore.
W.Z. Ahmed made only two movies in Pakistan, Roohi (1954) and Waada (1957). Film songs of Waada (1957) were written by a noted Pakistani film lyricist Saifuddin Saif and its popular music was by Rashid Attre. Notably Roohi was the first film to be banned in independent Pakistan. It was charged with inciting 'class hatred'. Nevertheless, the ban on Roohi was lifted in 1954.
In 1954, W.Z. Ahmed played a prominent role in campaign against imports of Indian films. He was arrested during the agitation but released later.
W.Z. Ahmed's ninth movie, Wafa Ki Ada, was never completed nor released.

## Family

His father had been a prominent police officer in Gujarat, British India. His brothers included Z.A. Ahmed (a prominent communist politician in Uttar Pradesh) and Zafaruddin Ahmed (Deputy Inspector of Police in Karachi). W.Z. Ahmed's first wife was Safia Hidayattullah. He later married Shahida, who had acted in one of his films in Bombay. His only son Fariduddin Ahmed better known as Farid Ahmed, also was a talented filmmaker in Pakistan. He married noted Pakistani television actress Samina Ahmad. Farid Ahmed died an early death in 1993.

## Awards and recognition

* Nigar Award - Best Director for Waada (1957).

## Death

W.Z. Ahmed died on 15 April 2007 at age 91. He is buried at Bagh-i-Rehmat graveyard in Lahore, Pakistan.
# 2025 in the Czech Republic

Events in the year 2025 in the Czech Republic.

## Incumbents

* President – Petr Pavel
* Prime Minister – Petr Fiala

## Events

* 11 January – Seven people are killed in an explosion and subsequent fire at a restaurant in Most.
* 20 February – Two people are killed in a knife attack at a shopping center in Hradec Králové. A 16-year old suspect is arrested.
* 28 February – A freight train carrying benzene derails and catches fire in Hustopeče nad Bečvou. No injuries are reported.

### Scheduled

* 18–29 June – EuroBasket Women 2025 in the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece and Italy
* October – Next Czech parliamentary election
* 5–14 December – 2025 Women's World Floorball Championships

## Holidays

Source:
* 1 January – New Year's Day
* 18 April – Good Friday
* 21 April – Easter Monday
* 1 May – Labour Day
* 8 May – Victory in Europe Day
* 5 July – St. Cyril and Methodius Day
* 6 July – Jan Hus
* 28 September – Czech Statehood Day
* 28 October – Independent Czechoslovak State Day
* 17 November - Freedom and Democracy Day
* 24 December - Christmas Eve
* 25 December - Christmas Day
* 26 December – Saint Stephen's Day

## Art and entertainment

* List of Czech submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

## Deaths
### January

* 5 January – František Šmahel, 90, historian.
* 10 January – Milan Feranec, 60, politician, MP (since 2017).
* 11 January – Mario Klemens, 88, conductor.
* 16 January – František Makeš, 93, Czech-born Swedish artist.
* 18 January – Eliška Wagnerová, 76, judge and politician.
* 21 January – Petr Hannig, 79, musician and politician.

### February

* 4 February – Jiří Čtvrtečka, 82, Olympic canoeist.
* 16 February – Vladimír Válek, 89, conductor.
* 17 February – Petr Matoušek, 75, cyclist.
# Mildred Williams

Mildred Williams (25 July 1916 — 21 May 2008) was a Canadian harness racer between the 1950s and 1970s. Williams started racing in Canada in 1951 and applied for a United States Trotting Association license throughout the 1960s. After being initially rejected by the USTA because of their policy to not give licenses to women jockeys, the organization gave Williams her license in 1968. After ending her racing career in 1973, Williams had competed in over 2000 races and had 327 wins. In 2012, she was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.

## Early life

On 25 July 1916, Williams was born in Ameliasburg, Ontario.

## Career

Williams began her equestrian career taking care of standardbred horses before entering in a 1951 race at Thorncliffe Park Raceway. Throughout the 1960s, Williams applied to the United States Trotting Association for a license to compete in American parimutuel betting races. William's attempts in 1960 and 1964 were rejected by the USTA because of the organization's policy to not grant women riders parimutuel racing licenses. When Williams said she would not compete at an international horse racing competition without a license from the organization, the USTA gave Williams her license in 1968.
In 1970, Williams began competing in the United States. After a car accident ended her competitive career in 1973, Williams worked in horse care until her retirement in 1983. After retiring, Williams had raced in over 2000 races with 327 wins.

## Awards and honours

In 2006, the Mildred Williams International Driving Series was opened as a women's only charity series raced throughout North America. For hall of fames, Williams was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2012.

## Death

Williams died on 21 May 2008 in Ottawa, Ontario.
# Võ Hoàng Yến

Võ Hoàng Yến (born October 29, 1988) is a Vietnamese actress, public speaker, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She won the Vietnam Supermodel 2008 contest and is the 1st runner-up of Miss Universe Vietnam 2008. She represented Vietnam in the Miss Universe 2009 pageant in the Bahamas.

## Miss Universe Vietnam 2008

The winner: Nguyễn Thùy Lâm (Thái Bình), competed in Miss Universe 2008 and was one of the 15 semi-finalists.
* 1st runner-up: Võ Hoàng Yến (Saigon), participated in Miss Universe 2009.
* 2nd runner-up: Dương Trương Thiên Lý (Đồng Tháp), joined Miss World 2008 and won the Miss People's Choice Award.
# Isaac Phills

Isaac Charles Phills, OC (January 11, 1896 – March 9, 1985) was a Canadian steel worker and the first Black man to receive the Order of Canada.

## Early Life

Phills was born in abject poverty in the West Indies before coming to Canada in 1916. He served in the First World War with the 85th Battalion (Nova Scotia Highlanders) of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. The writer Calvin Ruck quotes Phills as saying,
   In Sydney after the war started, quite a few Blacks volunteered for active service and were told point blank, "We don't want you. This is a white man's war." However, in 1917, the Canadian Army was up against it. They had lost a lot of men in France. At that point, they were willing to take anyone. Conscription came in, and they took the Blacks and the Whites.
Returning to Sydney, Nova Scotia after his discharge from service he went back to Sydney Steel where he worked for 45 more years and raised a family that included four college graduates.
Phills was active in his community, a member and vestryman of Saint Alban's Anglican Church in Whitney Pier, treasurer of the Ethiopian Community Club and secretary of the Court Washington Ancient Order of Foresters.

## Order of Canada

Isaac Phills was awarded the Order of Canada in Canada's centennial year of 1967. Isaac's appointment was in the inaugural list of 90 and was the only person of African descent to be recognised in the first list.
Phills' Order of Canada citation reads in part:
   A Cape Breton steel worker of West Indian origin, who raised a large family and despite many difficulties, gave them a good education and start in life and set a fine example in the community.
An article from the Cape Breton Post echoes the citation, stating that Phills, as the first Black man to receive the Order of Canada, is important for the role he played in showing the immigrant community of Whitney Pier that any man could overcome hardship through hard work and determination and build a prosperous life for themselves and their family in a new land.
# Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport

Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport (IATA: VNS, ICAO: VEBN) is an international airport serving Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located at Babatpur, 26 km (16 mi) northwest of Varanasi. Formerly known as Varanasi Airport, it was officially renamed after Lal Bahadur Shastri, the 2nd Prime Minister of India, in October 2005. It is the 20th-busiest airport in India in terms of passenger movement, and the second-busiest airport in Uttar Pradesh. The airport is awarded as the best airport in Asia-Pacific in 2020 (2 to 5 million passengers per annum) by Airports Council International. It is the first airport in India to make announcements in Sanskrit language.

## Terminal

An integrated terminal serves both domestic and international flights, with a floor area of 3,900 square metres (42,000 square feet). The terminal features 16 check-in counters with CUTE (common-user terminal equipment), four immigration counters that double up as emigration counters, and two baggage-claim belts. Besides an upper-level seating area for the aero-bridge gates, the terminal features a ground-level gate to reach other aircraft on the apron on foot, or via shuttle bus. The apron can simultaneously park five narrow-body aircraft. The waiting area features essential services for the passengers, besides snack stalls, a travellers' convenience store, a bookstore with a newsstand, and stores selling merchandise indigenous to Varanasi, such as Banarasi Saris; and a VIP waiting lounge.

## Airfield

The airport features a single asphalt runway bearing 09/27. It is 9,006 feet (2,745 m) in length, with turnarounds on both ends, and two exits to the main apron. A third, seldom-used exit leads to an isolated apron for use in emergency.

## Airlines and destinations

| Airlines | Destinations |
| Air India | Delhi, Mumbai |
| Air India Express | Bengaluru, Chennai (begins 30 March 2025), Delhi,Hyderabad, Mumbai, Sharjah |
| Akasa Air | Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai |
| Alliance Air | Kolkata, Pantnagar |
| Buddha Air | Kathmandu |
| IndiGo | Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Khajuraho, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pune |
| SpiceJet | Bengaluru, Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai |

## Future plans and projects

Due to increasing passenger traffic and aircraft movements the Airports Authority of India is planning to extend the runway to 4,075 m (13,369 ft) from the existing 2,750 m (9,020 ft). An underpass will be constructed as the expansion will intersect with National Highway 31.
In November 2019, the Airports Authority of India came up with a proposal for a new second terminal, which will be completed by 2024. The total area of the terminal will be 58,691 m$^2$ with passenger capacity of 4.5 million per year.
On 20 October 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for several projects at the Airport, including the expansion of the airport runway, a new terminal building, and other allied works, totalling around ₹2,870 crore.
# John 1:25

John 1:25 is the twenty-fifth verse in the first chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

## Content

In the original Greek according to Westcott-Hort, this verse is:
    Καὶ ἠρώτησαν αὐτόν, καὶ εἶπον αὐτῷ, Τί οὖν βαπτίζεις, εἰ σὺ οὐκ εἶ ὁ Χριστός, οὔτε Ἠλίας, οὔτε ὁ προφήτης;
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:
    And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
The New International Version translates the passage as:
    They questioned him, "Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

## Analysis

The scribes and Pharisees challenge John, asking by what authority does he baptize publicly, and how does he acts with authority so that the people flock to him, and were subject to a baptism of Penance? MacEvilly notes that this they thought as being particularly daring on the part of John, since he denied being a prophet; for the prophets foretold that when Christ would come, baptism was to be administered to the people (Ezech. 36:25; Zach. 13:1). And the Pharisees who were learned in the law, knew this. They supposed that such a baptism could only be done by the Messiah or by his accompanying prophet.

## Commentary from the Church Fathers

Origen: "The questions of the priests and Levites being answered, another mission comes from the Pharisees: And they that were sent were of the Pharisees. So far as it is allowable to form a conjecture from the discourse itself here, I should say that it was the third occasion of John’s giving his witness. Observe the mildness of the former question, so befitting the priestly and levitical character, Who art thou? There is nothing arrogant or disrespectful, but only what becomes true ministers of God. The Pharisees however, being a sectarian body, as their name implies, address the Baptist in an importunate and contumelious way. And they said, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, neither Elias, neither that Prophet? not caring about information, but only wishing to prevent him baptizing. Yet the very next thing they did, was to come to John’s baptism. The solution of this is, that they came not in faith, but hypocritically, because they feared the people."
Chrysostom: "Or, those very same priests and Levites were of the Pharisees, and, because they could not undermine him by blandishments, began accusing, after they had compelled him to say what he was not. And they asked him, saying, Why baptizest thou then, if thou art not the Christ, neither Elias, neither that Prophet? As if it were an act of audacity in him to baptize, when he was neither the Christ, nor His precursor, nor His proclaimer, i. e. that Prophet."
# Discovery Claim

Discovery Claim is a mining claim at Bonanza Creek, a watercourse in the Yukon, Canada. It is the site where, in the afternoon of August 16, 1896, the first piece of gold was found in the Yukon by prospectors. The site is considered to be the place where the Klondike gold rush started. It is located around 17 kilometres (11 miles) south-southeast of Dawson City. The Discovery claim was designated a National Historic Site of Canada on July 13, 1998.

## Discovery

On August 16, 1896 George Carmack, an American prospector, his Tagish wife Kate (birthname Shaaw Tláa), her brother Skookum Jim (birthname Keish), and their nephew Dawson Charlie (K̲áa Goox̱), while travelling through the area, stopped to rest on the banks of one of the Klondike River's tributaries called Bonanza Creek, then called Rabbit Creek. They were there on the suggestion of another prospector Robert Henderson. One of them noticed a shiny object in the water. It was gold and Carmack took credit for finding it. It is uncertain whether it was George Carmack, Kate Carmack or Skookum Jim who made the discovery, but the group decided that George Carmack be named as the official discoverer out of concern that mining authorities would be reluctant to recognize a claim made by an Indigenous claimant.

## Staking

On August 17, 1896, they staked out four claims, the first at Bonanza Creek. Two were for George Carmack. At that time, being the first to discover gold in an area entitled him to stake another, second claim. The other two claims were staked on behalf of Skookum Jim and Dawson Charlie.
* George Carmack, who claimed the discovery
* Kate Carmack, his wife, wearing her famous gold nugget necklace, 1898
* Skookum Jim, one of the discoverers, 1898
* Dawson Charlie

## Registration

The following month on September 24 they registered the claims. This took place at the police post in Forty Mile 80 kilometres (50 miles) away at the mouth of the Forty Mile River.
The initial claim is described legally as Claim 37903, a 152.4 metre (500 ft.) by 609.6 metre (2,000 ft.) area.
# Edificio Rockefeller

Edificio Rockefeller (literally Rockefeller Building) is the popular name of a building in Madrid, Spain that is headquarters of Instituto Nacional de Física y Química (National Institute of Physics and Chemistry). Opened in 1932, Edificio Rockefeller is located within the central campus of the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas),
According to architects Manuel Sánchez Arcas and Luis Lacasa, the building was named Edificio Rockefeller because the Rockefeller Foundation in the United States funded its construction and equipment. The architects were selected to bring to the building the new principles of rationalist functionalism.
Edificio Rockefeller owes its historical reputation for the work performed there until the Spanish Civil War. Some of the most important physical and chemical scientists in Spanish history Blas Cabrera, Miguel A. Catalán and Enrique Moles, were part of this first Spanish school of physics and physical chemistry.