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# Sylvanus Cobb Jr.

Sylvanus Cobb Jr. (June 5, 1823 – July 20, 1887) was an American popular fiction writer during the mid-19th century. His work was published in the New York Ledger, The Flag of Our Union, The Weekly Novelette, Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, and elsewhere.

## Brief biography

Cobb was born in Waterville, Maine to Sylvanus Cobb and Eunice Hale Waite. Cobb served in the United States Navy, 1840–ca.1843. He married Jane Head in 1845; they had two children. He joined the Freemasons in Norway, Maine in 1854.
He began writing stories around 1850. Frederick Gleason published Cobb's first story, "The Prophet of the Bohmer Wald: a Tale of the Time of Joseph II, Emperor of Germany" in The Flag of Our Union. His work was also published in Gleason's Pictorial beginning in 1851.
Cobb wrote prolifically. He "wrote and sold no less than 120 novels, more than 800 short stories, and found time to prepare some 90,000 manuscript pages of short items to pad out the columns of ... weeklies." Some say he sacrificed quality for quantity. According to one biographer, "Mr. Cobb was a fluent writer, who spent little time perfecting his style. As he summed up his work he wrote in the 31 years that he contributed to the New York Ledger 89,544 large pages of manuscript." Others evaluated Cobb as "a prolific writer of sensational tales quite without literary value."
Cobb published under various pseudonyms:
* Austin C. Burdick
* Charles Castleton
* Col. Walter B. Dunlap
* Enoch Fitzwhistler
* Dr. J.H. Robinson
* Dr. S. LeCompton Smith
* Symus, the Pilgrim
* Amos Winslow Jr.
Several of his stories were adapted for the stage, including "The Mystic Bride." His "stories were reprinted many times by other publishers including Street & Smith (Columbia Library); Beadle & Adams; Frederic A. Brady; Elliott, Thomes & Talbot; George W. Studley; Ogilvie (Detective Series); and Donahue (Flashlight Detective Series)."
Around 1869, Cobb relocated to Hyde Park, Boston, where he lived until his death in 1887. "Mr. Cobb amassed a large fortune by his pen, and built himself a handsome house at Hyde Park. His study was situated in a remote corner of the house in a tower built exclusively for his convenience. There he wrote uninterrupted, surrounded by all the curious odds and ends that he had picked up during his life. He was particularly fond of arms and armor, and his collection of these articles was rare and valuable."
Friends included the professional magician Jonathan Harrington.
Cobb's portrait was painted by his brother, Darius Cobb.

## Selected works

* The Gunmaker of Moscow (1856 serial, 1888 book)
* Fernando: or, The Moor of Castile. A Romance of Old Spain. F. Gleason's Publishing Hall, 1853.
* Ben Hamed: or, The Children of fate: A Story of the Eastern World. Elliott, Thomes & Talbot, 1863.
* A Love Match. P. Bonner's Sons, 1891.
* Orion, the Gold Beater. H. T. Coates, 1896.
# Ahlat, Çankırı

Ahlat (also: Ahlatköy) is a village in the Çankırı District of Çankırı Province in Turkey. Its population is 54 (2021).
# Ahlat District

Ahlat District is a district of Bitlis Province of Turkey. Its seat is the town of Ahlat. Its area is 1,153 km$^2$, and its population is 42,131 (2021). From 1929 to 1936, it was a district of Van Province.

## Tourism

The touristic places in Ahlat district are Ahlat Seljuk Cemetery, Ahlat Museum and Lake Nemrut.

## Composition

There are two municipalities in Ahlat District:
* Ahlat
* Ovakışla
There are 26 villages in Ahlat District:
* Akçaören
* Alakır
* Bahçe
* Burcukaya
* Çatalağzı
* Cemalettinköy
* Çukurtarla
* Develik
* Dilburnu
* Gölgören
* Güzelsu
* Kınalıkoç
* Kırıkkaya
* Kırkdönüm
* Kuşhane
* Nazik
* Otluyazı
* Sakaköy
* Serinbayır
* Seyrantepe
* Soğanlı
* Taşharman
* Uludere
* Yeniköprü
* Yoğurtyemez
* Yuvadamı
# Ahlatlıburun, Çan

Ahlatlıburun is a village in the Çan District of Çanakkale Province in Turkey. Its population is 244 (2021).
# Utu (disambiguation)

Utu or UTU can refer to the following things:
* Utu, a Sumerian deity
* Utu language
* Utu (Māori concept), a Māori word referring to a ritualised revenge or payback to restore balance
** Utu (film), a New Zealand film
* Utu (gunboat), an Estonian gunboat during World War II
* The United Transportation Union
* Untriunium, a hypothetical chemical element
* Utu, Estonia, village in Käina Parish, Hiiu County, Estonia
* Fibera KK-1e Utu, glider
* Fainu'ulelei S. Utu (1924-1974), American Samoan politician

## In education

* The Ulster Teachers' Union
* The United Transportation Union
* Teuku Umar University (Universitas Teuku Umar), a university in Indonesia
* University of Turku in Finland
* Utah Tech University in St. George, Utah
* Uttarakhand Technical University, a state science and technology university in Uttarakhand, India
# Wayne Conrad

Wayne Conrad is a former all-star and Grey Cup champion center who played six seasons for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League, winning two Grey Cup Championships. He played 80 regular season games for the Larks.
In 2008 Conrad auctioned off his jersey and Grey Cup ring to raise money for ALS and his former teammate Tony Proudfoot.
    Wayne Conrad, a centre on the Alouettes' 1977 championship team, is auctioning off his Grey Cup jersey and ring to raise funds for the ALS Society of Quebec and B.C. "There's nothing you can do that's more sacred, Conrad told the Montreal Gazette's Herb Zurkowsky. "To be honest, I cherish it. I believe I have given the thing I cherish most. Do I love Tony Proudfoot? Yes, I do. Do I love his family? Yes, I do. Tony gave me that gift by calling me his friend. Money from a Vancouver fundraiser will also go to the Tony Proudfoot Fund. Proudfoot, a good friend and former teammate of Conrad's, suffers from ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) .
# Wayne Cook

Wayne Cook may refer to:
* Wayne Cook (American football) (born 1971), American football player
* Wayne Cook (musician) (born 1946), American keyboardist
# Waw Township

Waw Township is a township in Bago District in the Bago Region of Burma. The principal town is Waw.
# William Abrams

William Abrams (c. 1785 – 6 February 1844) was a businessman with a military and judicial career in New Brunswick.
Abrams was born in England and emigrated to New Brunswick in 1819 where he started a business funded by himself and five partners in Scotland. He and his family settled in the Miramichi region and he ran a business there, first with partners and later on his own, until his death. He founded a successful shipyard at Rosebank.
William was active in the community and served as a justice of the peace and a justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in New Brunswick. Both positions were important to the area. As well, he brought needed banking services to the area and promoted the foundation of the local Chamber of Commerce. He was one of the most important of the early shipbuilders in New Brunswick and, as such, was important to the developing economy of the time.
# V. officinalis

V. officinalis may refer to:
* Verbena officinalis, a perennial herb species native to Europe
* Veronica officinalis, a plant species native to Europe and western Asia
# Mary Jones (poet)

Mary Jones (8 March 1707 – 10 February 1778) was an English poet.

## Biography

Jones was born in Oxford, where her father, Oliver, was a cooper. Her elder brother, named Oliver like his father, became precentor and senior chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford.
Jones learnt French and Italian in childhood. Despite living modestly with her brother in Oxford for most of her life, by 1730 she had become a friend of the Hon. Martha Lovelace, who was a daughter of John Lovelace, 4th Baron Lovelace and a Maid of Honour to Queen Caroline. Jones wrote poems in private letters to Lovelace and her well-connected circle of female friends and relations. Through them, Jones was able to occasionally leave Oxford, and stay at their country houses.
In April 1742, she was surprised to discover that one of her works, The Lass of the Hill, had been published without her knowledge, around the same time as her epitaph to Lord Aubrey Beauclerk was printed by his widow without consulting Jones. Jones was modest about her poetry, and apparently did not consider publishing her efforts until pushed to do so by her friends.
In 1750, her wealthy friends financed the publication of Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, which was to be her only volume of poetry published, though individual poems appeared in The London Magazine in 1752 and the anthology Poems by Eminent Ladies in 1755. The book was well-received, and was given "a long and glowing review" by Ralph Griffiths.
Samuel Johnson, who met Jones on his visits to Oxford, called her "the Chantress", and Thomas Warton recalled her as "a most sensible, agreeable and amiable woman". In her Epistle to Lady Bowyer, Jones admits to being overshadowed by Alexander Pope, who is clearly an influence in her writings. Her poetry is witty and gently satirical, and pokes mild fun at courtly manners, but is never vicious or biting.
Jones was postmistress of Oxford at her death, and was buried there on 14 February 1778.
# St. Croix, Indiana

St. Croix or Saint Croix is an unincorporated community in northern Oil Township, Perry County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
The community lies along on the western edge of the Hoosier National Forest, near the intersection of State Road 62, Interstate 64, and State Road 37, northeast of the city of Tell City, the county seat of Perry County. Main points of interest in St. Croix include Holy Cross Church, cemetery, and Church Hall as well as the Etienne Saw Mill and Bear Hollow Mulch. Although St. Croix is unincorporated, it had a post office, with the ZIP code of 47576.

## History

A colony of Catholics settled at St. Croix in 1849. The community's namesake St. Croix (Holy Cross) church was founded in 1855. A post office was established in St. Croix in 1880, but has since closed.
# Madel

Madel is a river of Thuringia, Germany. It flows into the Werra in Creuzburg.
# Atrichocera celebensis

Atrichocera celebensis is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae.
# Barnabe Rich

Barnabe Rich (also Barnaby Riche) (c. 1540 – 10 November 1617) was an English author and soldier, and a distant relative of Lord Chancellor Rich.

## Life

He fought in the Low Countries, rising to the rank of captain, and afterwards served in Ireland. He shared in the colonization of Ulster, and spent the latter part of his life near Dublin. In the intervals of his campaigns he produced many pamphlets on political questions and romances. In 1606 he was in receipt of a pension of half a crown a day, and in 1616 he was presented with a gift of £100 as being the oldest captain in the service.

## Works

His best-known work is Riche His Farwell to the Militarie Profession | Riche his Farewell to Militarie Profession conteining verie pleasaunt discourses fit for a peaceable tyme (1581). Of the eight stories contained in it, five, he says, are forged only for delight, neither credible to be believed, nor hurtful to be perused. The three others are translations from the Italian. He claims as his own invention the story of Apolonius and Silla, the second in the collection, from which Shakespeare took the plot of Twelfth Night. It is, however, founded on the tale of Nicuola and Lattantio as told by Matteo Bandello. The eighth, Phylotus and Emilia, a complicated story arising from the likeness and disguise of a brother and sister, is identical in plot with the anonymous play, Philotus, printed in Edinburgh in 1603. Both play and story were edited for the Bannatyne Club in 1835, by David Irving.
In the conclusion to his collection Rich tells a story of a devil named Balthasar, who possesses a king of Scots, prudently changed after the accession of James I to the Grand Turk. The Strange and Wonderful Adventures of Don Simonides, a Gentleman Spaniard (1581), with its sequel The Second Tome of the Travels and Adventures of Don Simonides (1584), is written in imitation of Lyly. Among his other romances should be mentioned The Adventures of Brusanus, Prince of Hungaria (1592).
His authenticated works number twenty-four, and include works on Ireland, the troubles of which were, according to him, due to the religion of the people and to the lack of consistency and firmness on the part of the English government. Such are: Allarme to England (1578); A New Description of Ireland (1610); and The Irish Hubbub, or the English Hue and Crie (1617), in which he also inveighs against the use of tobacco.
# Who the Fuck Is That Guy? The Fabulous Journey of Michael Alago

"Who The Fuck Is That Guy?" The Fabulous Journey Of Michael Alago, is a documentary film directed, written and edited by Drew Stone. A Stone Films NYC Production in Association with Rugged Entertainment and distributed by XLrator Media, the film documents the life of artists and repertoire (A&R) man Michael Alago.

## Synopsis

The documentary tells the story of gay Puerto Rican A&R executive Michael Alago who grew up in a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn in the early 1970s. At a young age, he began sneaking out of his house and going downtown to frequent legendary New York clubs CBGB and Max's Kansas City. He formed The Dead Boys Fan club as a teenager and soon after became the talent booker at the Ritz nightclub in the East Village. At 24, he became the A&R executive that signed Metallica and went on to work with the Misfits, Cyndi Lauper, Nina Simone and John Lydon. Surviving both substance abuse and AIDS he came out on the other end clean, sober and healthy. Reinventing himself as photographer and writer he looks into the future with a healthy, sober lifestyle and attitude.

## Reception

"The movie doesn't flinch from its subject's demons, either, recounting Alago's descent into addiction and his narrow brush with death after being diagnosed HIV positive, but unlike many an episode of Behind the Music, this one has a happy ending." – Variety
"This friendly doc is one more small chapter in the ongoing oral history of Downtown Manhattan around the turn of the Eighties, and will be appreciated by those who just can't hear enough." – The Hollywood Reporter

## Production

The film was shot over the course of a three-year period from 2013–2016 in New York, Los Angeles and New Orleans. An additional year was spent clearing photos and music. Archival material was provided by Alago.

## Soundtrack

Music by Jason Newsted, The Dead Boys, Nina Simone, Generation Kill & Borgo Pass. Original soundtrack by John Graves and Peter Spirer.
# Mont-de-Vougney

Mont-de-Vougney (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

## Geography

The commune lies 7 km (4.3 mi) southeast of Maîche. There are numerous caves on the territory of the commune.
# Dasol Lee

Dasol Lee (born January 4, 1990) is a Korean-Canadian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Grand Korea 2015. She represented Korea in the Miss Grand International 2015 pageant held in Bangkok, Thailand.

## Personal life

Lee was born in Cheongju, South Korea and grew up in Seoul. Her family moved to Canada when she was nine years old. She grew up in Hamilton, Ontario. She studied Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at Queen's University and Bachelor of Education at University of Toronto. She has played piano and violin for over 20 years. She speaks Korean, English, and French.

## Pageantry
### Miss Grand International 2015

Dasol Lee represented her country, Korea in Miss Grand International pageant held in Bangkok, Thailand.

### Miss Universe Canada 2014

Dasol Lee competed in Miss Universe Canada 2014, held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
# Meduza (Russian folklore)

Meduza (Russian: Медуза), Meluza (Russian: Мелуза, literally «small», «little») or Meluzina (Russian: Мелузина) is a mythical creature in Russian folklore. She was depicted in a Russian lubok of the 17th or 18th century. She is described as half-woman, half-snake, or as the half-woman, half-fish creature. She is also said to be the deity of deception.

## Appearance

She is represented as a sea monster with the head of a beautiful dark-haired maiden, having the body and belly of a striped beast, a dragon tail with a snake's mouth at the end, and legs resembling those of an elephant with the same snake mouths at the end. She also wears a crown.
According to belief, her snake mouths contained a deadly dragon poison. She was said to live in the Sea near the Ethiopian abyss, or in the Western Ocean.
# Utah State Route 187

Utah State Route 187 may refer the Utah State Highway that served the Utah State Prison (first the Sugar House Prison and then the Utah State Prison before it was deleted as a route) :
* Utah State Route 187 (1935-1941)
* Utah State Route 187 (1941-1969)
# Uvariodendron fuscum

Uvariodendron fuscum is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
# Utricularia pubescens

Utricularia pubescens is a small to medium-sized, probably annual, terrestrial or lithophytic carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia and is the only member of Utricularia sect. Lloydia. U. pubescens is native to India, tropical Africa, and Central and South America. It was originally published and described by James Edward Smith in 1819 and placed in its own section, Lloydia, by Peter Taylor in 1986. It grows as a terrestrial or lithophytic plant in boggy grasslands in damp peaty soils at altitudes from sea level to 1,900 m (6,234 ft). This species possesses small peltate leaves, which are diagnostic for this species in the genus.

## Synonyms

Utricularia pubescens is an extremely variable species and its distribution covers a large native range, two factors that have led to a considerable amount of synonymy.
* [U. capensis Kamieński]
* U. connellii N.E.Br.
* U. deightonii F.E.Lloyd & G.Taylor
* U. fernaldiana F.E.Lloyd & G.Taylor
* [U. firmula Hutch. & Dalziel]
* U. graniticola A.Chev. & Pellegr.
* U. hydrocotyloides F.E.Lloyd & G.Taylor
* [U. nivea Afzel. ex Kamieński]
* U. papillosa Stapf
* [U. pauciflora Afzel. ex Kamieński]
* U. peltata Spruce ex Oliv.
* U. peltatifolia A.Chev. & Pellegr.
* U. puberula Benj.
* U. regnellii Sylvén
* U. sciaphila Tutin
* U. subpeltata Steyerm.
* U. thomasii F.E.Lloyd & G.Taylor
* U. venezuelana Steyerm.
# VK 30 series

The Versuchskonstruktion 30 were two series of tank designs by Germany in World War II, originally intended as heavy 'breakthrough' tanks, but later switching completely to designate medium tanks to succeed the Panzer III, IV, and the planned VK 20 series tanks. These were requested in response to the Soviet T-34 and KV-1 tanks, with far heavier armour and armament than the mobile armoured vehicles fielded by the Wehrmacht at the time. Many German companies submitted projects, including Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg (MAN), Daimler-Benz (DB), Henschel, and Porsche. The winning entry tanks would go on to become the famous Tiger I and Panther tanks, capable opponents to the T-34, but it was ultimately too late and at too small of a scale to affect the course of the war.

## List of VK 30 series designs

The VK 30 series were 30-35 tonne class tank designs.
* VK 30.01 (H) -Henschel design for 30-tonne breakthrough tank, two prototypes built. Two hulls were later reused as Sturer Emil.
* VK 30.01 (P) - Porsche design for 30-tonne tank.
* VK 30.01 (D) - Daimler-Benz design for a 30-tonne tank.
* VK 30.02 (D) - Daimler-Benz design for a 30-tonne tank, initially ordered in 1942 but cancelled in favour of MAN design.
* VK 30.02 (M) - MAN design for a 30-tonne tank, which evolved into the Panther tank.

## Tiger tank entries

The origins of the first VK 30 began with the need for a breakthrough tank, or Durchbruchswagen in 1937, resulting in a few successive iterations.
Porsche submitted heavily armoured tank designs, but they were unconventional and also unsuccessful. This was dropped in 1938, around the same time as the start of the VK 20 project, in favour of the first VK 30 designs. These were submitted by Henschel and Porsche. However, it slowly grew in weight and Henschel redubbed it the VK 36.
On May 26 1941, Hitler ordered the production of prototypes for a new heavy tank, resulting in the VK 45 project, and later the VK 45.01 (H) Tiger I. The VK 45.01 (P) or Porsche-Tiger, was later turned into the Ferdinand tank destroyer and used at the Battle of Kursk.

## Panther tank entries

On 13 May 1942, the entries for the medium tank were submitted to the Panzer branch of the Waffenamt Prüfwesen (Wa Prüf 6). These included the MAN and DB models. DB presented an entry very similar to the T-34, but upgraded to German standards. It incorporated a similar full front plate sloped armour design akin to their entry for the VK 20 series of tanks. The DB entry held an early lead and was much simpler. However, the MAN entry finally won due to complications in turret production for the DB design that would have resulted in delayed production. It was rejected partially because it looked too much like a T-34 and could be mistaken for an enemy tank on the battlefield.
# V. Balasundaram

V. Balasundaram (1941/1942 – 7 December 2019) was an Indian politician who served as Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was Mayor of Chennai for the year 1969–70, and was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Acharapakkam constituency in 1971 election.
He was later described as a "veteran Dalit leader", and became President of the Ambedkar Makkal Iyakkam (Ambedkar People's movement), a political movement in Tamil Nadu working for the upliftment of Dalits.
# Mehić

Mehić is South-Slavic patronymic surname derived from the given name Meho (variation of Mehmetd). Notable people include:
* Damir Mehić (born 1987), Bosnian-born Swedish footballer
* David Mehić (born 1997), Serbian volleyball player
* Sead Mehić (born 1975), Bosnian footballer
# Megachile malangensis

Megachile malangensis is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Friese in 1904.