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# Soares da Costa

Soares da Costa SGPS, S.A. (Euronext: SCOAE, Sociedade de Construções Soares da Costa S.A.) is a Portuguese company. Its main activities are civil engineering and construction, public works, real estate, housing construction, production of construction materials and other related activities. Grupo Soares da Costa is one of the largest groups in the civil construction and public works sector in Portugal. The corporate structure is based on three sub-holdings which correspond to three business groups: Construction, Concessions and Real Estate.
The company was founded in 1918 in Oporto by José Soares da Costa. Today it possesses a strong international focus (over 70% per cent of their business volume in 2012 was of an international nature), with offices in Angola, Mozambique, United States (Florida), Brazil, Romania and Israel. Ranked among the 100 largest groups in the sector, the company maintains a permanent presence in the Portuguese speaking African countries. The activities of the Group in the international market have increased in importance, and in 2012 represented 70.5% of the business volume. The internationalization process began in 1979 with the creation of an associated company in Venezuela, reaching global dimension with activities in territories as diverse in nature as Iraq, Spain, Egypt, Germany, Macau, Barbados and Romania.
In a worldwide ranking performed by the North American magazine Engineering News-Record (2013), the company holds the 108th position as an international contractor.
# Micheler

Micheler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Joseph Alfred Micheler (1861–1931), French general
* Peter Micheler, West German-Luxembourgish slalom canoeist
# Tipuani Municipality

Tipuani Municipality is the sixth municipal section of the Larecaja Province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Tipuani.

## Languages

The languages spoken in the Tipuani Municipality are mainly Spanish, Aymara and Quechua.
| Language | Inhabitants |
| Quechua | 1.587 |
| Aymara | 2.534 |
| Guaraní | 20 |
| Another native | 18 |
| Spanish | 8.594 |
| Foreign | 61 |
| Only native | 190 |
| Native and Spanish | 3.499 |
| Only Spanish | 5.097 |
Ref.: obd.descentralizacion.gov.bo
# Xi1 Centauri

Xi$^1$ Centauri, Latinized from ξ$^1$ Centauri, is a solitary star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.83. With an annual parallax shift of 14.79 mas, it is located around 221 light years from the Sun. At that distance, the apparent visual magnitude of the star is diminished by an interstellar extinction factor of 0.10 due to intervening dust. Just 17 arc minutes to the east of Xi$^1$ Centauri lies the galaxy NGC 4945.
This is an A-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of A0 V. It is about 125 million years old with a relatively high rate of spin, having a projected rotational velocity of 185 km/s. The star has an estimated 2.4 times the mass of the Sun and about 2.7 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 43 times the solar luminosity from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 10,462 K.
# Temognatha heros

Temognatha heros, the yellow jewel beetle or large jewel beetle, is a species of beetles belonging to the family Buprestidae.

## Description

Temognatha heros can reach a length of about 60–80 millimetres (2.4–3.1 in). It is the biggest within the genus Temognatha. The basic body colour is yellowish-orange, while pronotum is dark reddish. Elytra are punctato-striate. Legs show a metallic blue color.
The adults feed on the flowers of various trees and shrubs (especially Eucalyptus leptophylla, Eucalyptus foecunda, Melaleuca pauperiflora and Melaleuca uncinata.
Larvae are wood-borers of Casuarina species, Eucalyptus gracilis, Eucalyptus oleosa, Eucalyptus foecunda and Melaleuca uncinata.

## Distribution

This species is present in South and Western Australia (New South Wales and Victoria). These beetles can be found in drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones.
# Canton of Agen-4

The canton of Agen-4 is an administrative division of the Lot-et-Garonne department, southwestern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Agen.
It consists of the following communes:
* Agen (partly)
* Le Passage
# Mitali Banerjee Ruths

Mitali Banerjee Ruths (born 1982) is an American-Canadian children's author and pediatrician.

## Life

Ruths was born in New York, and grew up in Texas; her parents immigrated to the U.S. from West Bengal, India. There, her father worked for NASA as an engineer, and she attended Space Center Intermediate. After attending medical school, she had her pediatric internship in Houston.
Ruths began writing her Party Diaries series following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

## Personal life

Ruths moved to Montreal, Canada in 2010. As of 2023, she, her husband, and their three children live in Montreal, where she works as a pediatrician.

## Publications

* Archie Celebrates Diwali. Charlesbridge Publishing. 2021-09-14. ISBN 978-1-62354-119-4.
* Archie Celebrates an Indian Wedding. Charlesbridge Publishing. 2024-04-30. ISBN 978-1-62354-418-8.
* Help the Kind Lion: An Acorn Book (The Inside Scouts #1). Scholastic Inc. 2024-02-06. ISBN 978-1-338-89500-1.

### The Party Diaries

* Awesome Orange Birthday: A Branches Book (The Party Diaries #1). Scholastic Inc. 2023-01-03. ISBN 978-1-338-79964-4.
* Starry Henna Night: A Branches Book (The Party Diaries #2). Scholastic Inc. 2023-04-04. ISBN 978-1-338-79985-9.
* Top Secret Anniversary: A Branches Book (The Party Diaries #3). Scholastic Inc. 2023-10-31. ISBN 978-1-338-79992-7.
# Helen Konek

Helen Agaaqtuq Konek is a Inuk elder from Arviat, Nunavut. A 1949 photograph of her went viral in 2019.

## Early life

Konek was born as Helen Agaaqtuq in May 1932 in a tupiq on the eastern shore of Henik Lake. Helen's father was Piqqanaaq Agaaqtuq and her mother was Paalak Agaaqtuq. She had three brothers: Nanauq, Pukiluk, and Kinaalik. As a child she accompanied her brothers and father on caribou hunting trips, including to Ennadai Lake in the Ahiarmiut's territory.
Helen was photographed in 1949, aged 17, by Richard Harrington as part of a series taken while he was travelling around the Arctic. The photograph was taken in ᑭᖓᕐᔪᐊᓕᒃ (English: of big hill).

## Adult life

By 1952, the Agaaqtuq family were living close to the Padlei trading post. In 1953, Helen started living as a couple with James Konek, the son of a storekeeper in Arviat. They both lived in Arviat in winter and Barren Lands area in the summer. The 1950 Caribou Inuit famine caused Helen's mother Paalak to die in 1957, the rest of the family survived on fish, rabbit, and ptarmigan. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police forcibly displaced the Konek family in 1960 from Padlei to Arviat.
One of Harrington's photographs of Konek entering her igloo was widely shared online in 2019 after her journalist grandson Jordan Konek tweeted it. Konek is an elder, and lives in Arviat, Nunavut.
# Hertog Jan (restaurant)

Hertog Jan was a restaurant in Bruges and (from July 2014) Loppem–Zedelgem, Belgium. It was led by chefs Gert De Mangeleer and Joachim Boudens.
It was rated with 3 stars by the Michelin Red Guide, one of only three restaurants in the country as of 2012.
On 22 December 2018, Hertog Jan was closed to open a brasserie in Antwerp.
# Inventing the "American Way"

Inventing the "American Way": The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement is a 2008 book by American historian Wendy L. Wall, a professor at Queen's University. It deals with postwar consensus politics and a national unity which developed from governmental response to the rise of communism and fascism. Wall argues that national unity projects were forged, in order to unite Americans around what seemed to be their common values.
According to Kevin M. Kruse from Princeton University, Wall shows that "concepts most Americans now take for granted were created at mid-century to mask deep divisions in American society". Projects such as the Freedom Train and Letters from America were built in support of capitalism and protection from other ideologies.
According to Jeremi Suri from the University of Wisconsin, this book covers new ground in careful analysis of how "politicians, intellectuals, businesspeople, labor unions, and ethnic organizations worked—in shifting coalitions—to promote a predominant set of assumptions about citizenship and patriotism."

## Awards

The book has received the Ellis W. Hawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians in 2008 and the Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award.
# 2020 IIHF Women's World Championship

The 2020 IIHF Women's World Championship was scheduled to be an international ice hockey tournament run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was scheduled to be contested in Halifax and Truro, Canada, from 31 March to 10 April 2020.
On March 7, 2020, the tournament was cancelled by the IIHF due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

## Planned participants

* Canada
* Czech Republic
* Denmark – Promoted from Division I A
* Finland
* Germany
* Hungary – Promoted from Division I A
* Japan
* Russia
* Switzerland
* United States

## Match officials

Twelve referees and ten linesmen are selected for the tournament.
| Referees | Linesmen |
| Elizabeth Mantha Lacey Senuk Kaisa Ketonen Anniina Nurmi Marie Picavet Tijana Haack Daria Yermak Nikoleta Celárová Maria Furberg Anna Wiegand Kaylen Erchul Chelsea Rapin | Julia Kainberger Alexandra Blair Jenni Heikkinen Linnea Sianio Lisa Linnek Diana Mokhova Anna Hammar Magali Anex dit Chenaud Jacqueline Spresser Sara Strong |

## Rosters

Each team's roster consists of at least 15 skaters (forwards, and defencemen) and two goaltenders, and at most 20 skaters and three goaltenders. All ten participating nations, through the confirmation of their respective national associations, had to submit a "Long List" roster no later than two weeks before the tournament.

## Preliminary round

The schedule was announced on 25 September 2019.
All times are local (UTC−3).

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Quarterfinals |
| 2 | Canada (H) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Quarterfinals |
| 3 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Quarterfinals |
| 4 | Russia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Quarterfinals |
| 5 | Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Quarterfinals |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Quarterfinals |
| 2 | Germany | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Quarterfinals |
| 3 | Czech Republic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Quarterfinals |
| 4 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Relegation to 2021 Division I |
| 5 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Relegation to 2021 Division I |

## Knockout stage

There would have been a re-seeding after the quarterfinals.

### Bracket

| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| 7 April | 7 April | | |
| A1 | | | |
| A1 | | 9 April | 9 April | |
| B3 | | 9 April | 9 April |
| 7 April | 7 April | | | |
| A2 | | | |
| A2 | | | | 10 April | 10 April |
| B2 | | | | 10 April | 10 April |
| 7 April | 7 April | | | | |
| A3 | | | | | |
| A3 | | 9 April | 9 April | | |
| B1 | | 9 April | 9 April | | |
| 7 April | 7 April | | | | |
| 7 April | 7 April | | | Third place | Third place |
| A4 | | | | Third place | Third place |
| A4 | | | | 10 April | 10 April |
| A5 | | | | 10 April | 10 April |

### Fifth place game

The winner of this game earns a spot in Group A of the 2021 tournament.
# Xoləzəy

40°01′N 46°02′E﻿ / ﻿40.017°N 46.033°E﻿ / 40.017; 46.033
Xoləzəy (Kholazay), also Xoləzəy Alxaslı (Kholazay Alkhasly) is a village in the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan.
# Temoh Station

Temoh Station is a small town in Tapah, Batang Padang District, Perak, Malaysia. Formerly there was a major railway station located here, which Temoh Station got its name. The railway station was closed in 1980. One can go here via the Jalan Temoh (Perak state route A116) from Temoh, 3 km from here.
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# Canton of Agen-1

The canton of Agen-1 is an administrative division of the Lot-et-Garonne department, southwestern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Agen.
It consists of the following communes:
* Agen (partly)
* Bajamont
* Foulayronnes
* Pont-du-Casse
# Mitalee Jagtap Varadkar

Mitalee Jagtap Varadkar is an Indian actress who works in the Marathi film industry. She is known for her role in the film Baboo Band Baaja (2010), which earned her a National Film Award for Best Actress at the 58th National Film Awards. The award was presented by the jury for portraying with finesse a mother who strives to achieve for her son a better future than the one denied to her by circumstances. She shared this award title with Saranya Ponvannan for the latter's role in the Tamil film Thenmerku Paruvakaatru.
Varadkar is a trained classical dancer and did experimental theatre in Aurangabad, Maharashtra before moving on to her film career.

## Filmography

| Year | Film | Language | Notes |
| 2000 | Raju | Marathi | |
| 2001 | Kkusum | Hindi | TV Series |
| 200 | Vadalvaat | Marathi | TV Series |
| 2005 | Aai Ekveerecha Udo Udo | Marathi | |
| 2003 | Vithal Vithal | Marathi | |
| 2010 | Baboo Band Baaja | Marathi | National Film Award for Best Actress |
| 2013 | Satyagraha | Hindi | |
| 2013 | Asava Sundar Swapnancha Bangla | Marathi | TV Series |
| 2015 | Manatlya Unhat | Marathi | |
| 2016 | Taleem | Marathi | |
| 2017 | Ghat | Marathi | |
| 2019 | Nashibvaan | Marathi | |
| 2022 | Gangubai Kathiawadi | Hindi | |
# Helen Koral

Helen Koral was the wife of Alexander Koral. Both were Americans who, allegedly, worked for Soviet intelligence during World War II. The Koral's headed the "Art" or "Berg" group of Soviet spies. The Berg group acted as couriers for various Soviet contacts, including the Silvermaster ring. Helen Koral received a regular stipend of $100 per month from the KGB and work closely with Helen Lowry, the wife of Iskhak Akhmerov, the KGB Illegal Rezident during World War II. Her code name in the Soviet intelligence according to materials from the Venona project was "Miranda", and later changed to "Art".

## Venona

* 1251 KGB New York to Moscow, 2 September 1944;
* 1524 KGB New York to Moscow, 27 October 1944;
* 1582 KGB New York to Moscow, 12 November 1944;
* 1636 KGB New York to Moscow, 21 November 1944;
* 1791 KGB New York to Moscow, 20 December 1944;
* 1052 KGB New York to Moscow, 5 July 1945;
* 337 KGB Moscow to New York, 8 April 1945.
# 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres

The men's 10,000 metres at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Moncton 2010 Stadium on 20 July. A field of 20 athletes from 14 countries competed.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Dennis Chepkongin Masai Kenya | Gebretsadik Abraha Ethiopia | Paul Kipchumba Lonyangata Kenya |

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nationality | Time | Location | Date |
| World junior record | Samuel Wanjiru | Kenya | 26:41.75 | Brussels | August 26, 2005 |
| Championship record | Josphat Bett | Kenya | 27:30.85 | Bydgoszcz | July 9, 2008 |
No new records were established during the competition.

## Results

20 July
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Dennis Chepkongin Masai | Kenya | 27:53.88 | WJL |
| | Gebretsadik Abraha | Ethiopia | 28:03.45 | PB |
| | Paul Kipchumba Lonyangata | Kenya | 28:14.55 | PB |
| 4 | Mohammed Ahmed | Canada | 29:11.75 | |
| 5 | Aaron Pulford | New Zealand | 29:14.23 | NJR |
| 6 | Parker Stinson | United States | 29:32.23 | PB |
| 7 | Suresh Kumar | India | 29:40.07 | |
| 8 | Suguru Osako | Japan | 29:40.14 | |
| 9 | Fuminori Shikata | Japan | 29:47.87 | |
| 10 | Joseph Chebet | Uganda | 29:56.53 | SB |
| 11 | Gabriel Navarro | Spain | 29:57.78 | PB |
| 12 | Mohammed Merbouhi | Algeria | 30:06.23 | PB |
| 13 | Andrew Nixon | Canada | 30:35.43 | |
| 14 | Nicolae Soare | Romania | 30:37.23 | PB |
| 15 | Mansour Haraoui | Algeria | 30:54.84 | |
| 16 | Graham Bazell | United States | 30:59.57 | |
| 17 | Indalow Takala | Israel | 31:25.38 | |
| | Edwin Chebii Kimurer | Bahrain | | DNF |
| | Debebe Woldesenbet | Ethiopia | | DNF |
| | José Costa | Portugal | | DNF |
Key: DNF = Did not finish, NJR = National junior record, PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best, WJL = World junior leading

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.
* Algeria (2)
* Bahrain (1)
* Canada (2)
* Ethiopia (2)
* India (1)
* Israel (1)
* Japan (2)
* Kenya (2)
* New Zealand (1)
* Portugal (1)
* Romania (1)
* Spain (1)
* Uganda (1)
* United States (2)
# Snowboarding at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics – Men's big air

The men's big air event in snowboarding at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics took place on 27 and 28 January at the Welli Hilli Park.

## Qualification

The qualification was started at 13:15.
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Best | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Eli Bouchard | Canada | 96.00 | 31.00 | 96.00 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | Luca Mérimée-Mantovani | France | 90.50 | 24.25 | 90.50 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Romain Allemand | France | 85.75 | 89.25 | 89.25 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Campbell Melville Ives | New Zealand | 88.00 | 16.00 | 88.00 | Q |
| 5 | 8 | Txema Mazet-Brown | New Zealand | 84.75 | 25.25 | 84.75 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | Oliver Martin | United States | 83.00 | 28.25 | 83.00 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | Brooklyn DePriest | United States | 76.00 | 82.00 | 82.00 | Q |
| 8 | 20 | Ge Chunyu | China | 81.00 | 29.00 | 81.00 | Q |
| 9 | 11 | Niklas Sukke | Norway | 72.75 | 16.00 | 72.75 | Q |
| 10 | 17 | Tadeáš Nedielka | Slovakia | 55.50 | 70.25 | 70.25 | Q |
| 11 | 13 | Gregorio Marchelli | Italy | 68.00 | 22.50 | 68.00 | |
| 12 | 9 | Neko Reimer | Canada | 17.25 | 54.25 | 54.25 | |
| 13 | 18 | Benjamin Villegas | Chile | 13.25 | 53.50 | 53.50 | |
| 14 | 16 | Mischa Zürcher | Switzerland | 35.75 | 52.75 | 52.75 | |
| 15 | 15 | Aljaž Sladič | Slovenia | 51.00 | 45.00 | 51.00 | |
| 16 | 14 | Reef Hasler | Switzerland | 47.75 | 14.25 | 47.75 | |
| 17 | 19 | Teiva Hamaini | Great Britain | 40.00 | 39.25 | 40.00 | |
| 18 | 12 | Milo Botterill | Australia | 8.50 | 34.00 | 34.00 | |
| 19 | 21 | Felix Fulterer | Italy | 19.25 | 25.50 | 25.50 | |
| 20 | 10 | Erik Jurmu | Finland | 10.00 | 10.25 | 10.25 | |
| 21 | 4 | Lee Chae-un | South Korea | Did not start | Did not start | Did not start | Did not start |

## Final

The final was started at 13:55.
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Total |
| | 3 | Eli Bouchard | Canada | 92.25 | 91.00 | 42.00 | 183.25 |
| | 5 | Oliver Martin | United States | 97.25 | 80.75 | 82.25 | 179.50 |
| | 6 | Campbell Melville Ives | New Zealand | 82.75 | 70.25 | 25.00 | 153.00 |
| 4 | 7 | Luca Mérimée-Mantovani | France | 76.00 | 48.50 | 31.50 | 124.50 |
| 5 | 17 | Tadeáš Nedielka | Slovakia | 20.00 | 73.25 | 47.50 | 120.75 |
| 6 | 20 | Ge Chunyu | China | 80.25 | 21.50 | 14.25 | 101.75 |
| 7 | 1 | Romain Allemand | France | 23.75 | 24.50 | 94.75 | 94.75 |
| 8 | 2 | Brooklyn DePriest | United States | 25.00 | 43.75 | 19.50 | 63.25 |
| 9 | 8 | Txema Mazet-Brown | New Zealand | 21.75 | 17.50 | 21.50 | 21.75 |
| 10 | 11 | Niklas Sukke | Norway | Did not start | Did not start | Did not start | Did not start |
# Mindru Katz

Mindru Katz (3 June 1925 – 30 January 1978) was a Romanian-Israeli classical pianist.

## Biography

Katz was born to Jewish parents in Bucharest in 1925. He was discovered as a child prodigy by the noted composer George Enescu, and taught by Florica Musicescu. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in Bucharest in 1947, in which year he also made his debut with the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra. He had an international career, visited 40 countries, and played under conductors: Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Adrian Boult, Sergiu Celibidache, Sergiu Comissiona, Antal Doráti, Josef Krips, Lorin Maazel, Harold Byrns, Yuval Zaliouk and Alfred Wallenstein.
Katz migrated to Israel in 1959. He joined the faculty of the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, and became a professor of piano in 1972. His most notable pupils are Mordecai Shehori, Astrith Baltsan and Angela Borochov (née Angela Stone).
He was a jury member at the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv in 1974 (won by Emanuel Ax), together with Arthur Rubinstein himself, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Eugene Istomin and others.
Katz was renowned particularly for his recorded interpretations of J. S. Bach, Beethoven, the concertos of Khachaturian and Prokofiev, and the violin sonatas of Brahms and Franck (with Henryk Szeryng; this was the only recording Szeryng ever made of the Franck Sonata). He also recorded the music of Chopin, Debussy, Enescu, Fauré, Haydn, Liszt, Mozart, Ravel, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky. His recordings received consistently high critical acclaim, and his playing was often compared with that of Vladimir Horowitz.
His great performance is the Beethoven Emperor Concerto conducted by Sir John Barbirolli in 1958 on PYE records.

## Death

At the age of 52, Katz died of a heart attack on stage during a recital in Istanbul, Turkey, while performing Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Tempest. He left behind a wife and daughter.
# Cecil Joslin Brooks

Cecil Joslin Brooks (1875–1953) was a British metallurgical chemist who also collected insects, plants (especially ferns), animals and butterflies. Educated privately and at King's College, London, he was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry (1922) and Member of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
Brooks was born in Cambridge on 7 May 1875 and educated at a private boarding school in Hastings before going on to King's College, London. In 1906 he married Alida Johanna de Jongh in Hilversum. Their children included Mercy Brookes (born Sarawak 1908) and Cecil Jocelyn Talida Brooks (born 1913, educated at Monkton Combe School).
From 1896 to 1897 Brooks worked as an Assistant at Stanger and Blount's Laboratories and Testing Works in Westminster, London. He became Chemist to the Sussex Portland Cement Co., Newhaven, East Sussex and then from 1897 to 1900 he was Metallurgical Chemist to Quirk Barton and Co., London. In 1900 he became Cyanide Manager, Borneo Company, at their gold mine at Bidi, Sarawak, prospecting for gold ore in new districts and research on the treatment of arsenical antimonial gold ore. From 1904 to 1906 he worked as a Metallurgist to Quirk, Barton and Co undertaking research in treatment of Cobalt silver ore and bismuth ores, ultimately erecting a bismuth plant and becoming Departmental Manager at the plant. Between 1907 and 1910 he returned to Sarawak as Cyanide Manager at Bidi and then later at Bau undertaking research on the Pahang Consolidated Co.'s tin ores, soils and agricultural matters. From 1912 to 1921 he was Chief Chemist and Metallurgist to the Simau Gold Mining Co., near Bencoolen in Sumatra.
In 1911 he and his family were living in Thetford where he owned property.
In 1915 he sent a plant specimen of Amorphophallus titanum from Sumatra to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
He returned to England with his Dutch wife Alida in 1924. He remarried in 1927, to Ada Lilian Beatrice Greenbank, née Harbord, who was born in Cork in June 1875.
He studied his collections, including butterflies held in the British Museum of Natural History, where he was made an associate. His collection of East Anglian moths is in the Norwich Castle Museum.
Many species of fern are named for him (mainly by Edwin Copeland); also Brooks' dayak fruit bat, Dyacopterus brooksi; Brooks' wolf gecko, Luperosaurus brooksii; and Brooks' nose-horned lizard, Thaumatorhynchus brooksi.
A species of Sumatran snake, Calamaria alidae, is named in honour of his wife, Alida Brooks.
He died in Hampstead in 1953.