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# Damon Ferrante

Damon Ferrante is an American composer whose works have been performed in concert halls and performance venues throughout North America, most notably, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, Guild Hall, and Theatre Project.
His opera, Jefferson & Poe, (with librettist Daniel Mark Epstein), received its premiere in 2005 at Symphony Space in Manhattan. His song cycle, The Mountain & Tidewater Songs (also on texts by Epstein), has been performed throughout the United States (including Carnegie Hall) since 2006.

## Critical Reaction

Tim Smith of The Baltimore Sun calls Ferrante's music "focused and colorful...with an unexpected, decidedly poetic touch".
Geoffrey Himes of Baltimore City Paper states, "If the tune has the elegance of traditional opera, the harmonization is very modern as the vocal lines climb and descend the melodic staircases that Ferrante has constructed for them".
Anne Midgette, writing in The New York Times on Friday, December 2, 2005, cited Ferrante's opera Jefferson and Poe as one of the three operas to see in New York in early December; the two other operas listed were productions of La bohème and Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera.

## Selected works

* Jefferson & Poe: A Lyric Opera in Two Acts
* Super Double Lite: An Opera in Two Acts
* Toward Home: An Evening Length Work for Modern Dance
* The Mountain and Tidewater Songs: A Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano Trio
* Snow Moon: A Piano Sonata
* Dreaming Cities: A Piano Trio
* Guitar Concerto
* The Footbridge: A Guitar Duo
* From Out of Air: Songs for Soprano and Piano
# Vachellia daemon

Vachellia daemon is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae found only in Cuba. It is threatened by habitat loss.
# Vadali, West Godavari district

Vadali is a village in Penugonda Mandal in West Godavari District of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

## Demographics

Telugu is the local language. The population of Vadali is 5,613, with 2,825 males and 2,788 females living in 1451 Households.
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# Vadali, Eluru district

Vadali is an Indian village located 2 kilometers away from Mudinepalli mandal, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, situated near Machilipatnam.
# Vadali State

Vadali is a village and former Rajput non-salute princely state on Saurashtra peninsula in Gujarat, western India.

## History

Vadali was a Seventh Class princely state, comprising only the village, in the Halar prant of Western Kathiawar, ruled by Jadeja Rajput Chieftains.
It had a population of 409 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 6,435 Rupees (1903-4, mostly from land) and a paying a tribute of 324 Rupees, to the British and Junagadh State.

## External links and Sources

History
* Imperial Gazetteer, on dsal.uchicago.edu
# Merburg

Merburg is a ruined small castle near Homburg, Saarland, Germany. Details about the castle's builders and most of their owners are unknown. Parts of the fortification date to the early 12th century, likely at the location of an older refuge castle from the 10th century. In 1179, a Count Dietrich von Merburg is documented. The castle was probably abandoned in the late 12th century.
# Menoncourt

Menoncourt (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in northeastern France.
# Fitzroy (surname)

Fitzroy or FitzRoy is a patronymic surname derived from the Anglo-Norman Fi(t)z, meaning "son of", and Roy, meaning "king". The name implied the original bearer was a son of the king.

## Surname

* Cecil Fitzroy (1844–1917), New Zealand politician
* Edi Fitzroy (1955–2017), Jamaican reggae singer
* Emily Fitzroy (1860–1954), English actress in the USA
* Maurice Fitzroy (1897–1976), English cricketer
* Nancy Deloye Fitzroy (1927–2024), American engineer
* Olga Fitzroy, (b. 1981 or 1982), German-born British politician and sound engineer
* Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865), Royal Navy officer, Captain of HMS Beagle
# Daisai

Daisai is a small town in Contai III CD Block in Contai subdivision in the district of East Medinipur, in the state of West Bengal, India.

## Etymology

The previous name of Daisai was Dadhi Patna, which was then under the Bahiri Mutha Pargana. The legend has it that due to the scarcity of water and widespread salinity in ground water during that period, every family had to have their own water pond in which rainwater from the rainy season would be stored for the year long consumption. When a newly wed son of a villager wished to start a family with his bride in a separate household than that of his father, the old man being willing to gift him a pond hired a few hired hands as diggers. After a few days of digging, the hired hands unearthed an object that seemed like the part of a huge wooden structure. They could not immediately recognize the structure as the most it was still hidden in the soil, mud and earth. Persevering day after day they finally uncovered not only the said structure but a hidden treasure: gold and silver coins, idols and precious gems along with it. In the full view the wooden structure was recognized as the deck beam of a ship which had been probably sunk a long time ago, when the area had been submerged under the sea water of the Bay of Bengal. In the native language of the villagers (which is different from both Bengali and Oriya, yet is influenced by both the languages) the deck beam had been called 'Sai'. After this incident the village was called by its new name - Daisai - 'Dai' being the easier and aberrated form of the Sanskrit name Dadhi and 'Sai' being the deck beam of the sunken ship.

## Demographics

As per 2011 Census of India Daisai had a total population of 3,170 of which 1,624 (51%) were males and 1,546 (49%) were females. Population below 6 years was 334. The total number of literates in Daisai was 2,338 (82.44% of the population over 6 years).

## Economy

Till the year 2000, small scale industry as Iron made home utensils were manufactured that gave employment to many villagers. After the year 2000, these industries were sick and shut down causing unemployment. Since income from agricultural land was not sufficient for dwelling, many villagers migrated to different parts of India as an unskilled labor for their livelihood.
An Agricultural Credit Society (Daisai Krishi Unnyan Samiti Ltd.) was formed in 1952 by Kalipada Paria, and his two friends, Gobinda Prasad Mandal and Bhuthanath Ghorai. That society is the only source of loans to the villagers and it also performs banking activities.

## Education
### List of schools in Daisai

* Daisai Board Primary School
* Daisai Dakshin Sishu Siksha Kendra
* Marishda B.K.J Banipith (H.S)
* Daisai A.G Church ITI

## Transport

NH 116B connecting Nandakumar, Purba Medinipur (junction with NH 41) and Chandaneswar, Balasore district in Orissa passes through Daisai.
# Daisaku Kimura

Daisaku Kimura (木村 大作, Kimura Daisaku) is a Japanese film director and cinematographer.

## Overviews

He won the award for best director at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize for Mt. Tsurugidake.

## Filmography

* Submersion of Japan (1973)
* Mt. Tsurugidake
* Climbing to Spring (2014)
* Samurai's Promise (2018)

## Honours

* Person of Cultural Merit (2020)
# Vadiyakkadu

Vadiyakkadu is a village in the Madukkur Panchayat Union, Pattukkottai taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India, also known as Vadiyakkadu. It is a small and well developing Village located in southern part of Tamil Nadu. It is 15 km from Pattukkottai. It is surrounded with number of villages. Being in the Cauvery River Delta Area the inhabitants’ main occupation is agriculture. Tamil is the official language and is predominantly spoken.

## Demographics

As per the 2001 census, Vadiyakkadu had a total population of 1147 with 580 males and 567 females. The sex ratio was 978. The literacy rate was 71.1.

## Major cultivation

Thanjavur is known as the "Rice bowl of Tamil Nadu". Paddy is the crops and the other crops grown are blackgram, banana, coconut, gingelly, ragi, red gram, green gram, sugarcane and maize. The total percentage of land fit for cultivation is 58%. There are three seasons for agriculture in Thanjavur - Kuruvai (June to September), Samba (August to January) and Thaladi (September, October to February, March) but due to lack of water resources maximum area should be planted by coconut trees. Paddy and coconut are the major crops cultivated by Vadiyakkadu people.

## Education

There is One Government Primary School located in south street.

## Temples

There are five major temples – Vinayagar Temple, Marriyamman Temple, Sivan Kovil, Ayyanar Temple ,MUNISHWARAR TEMPLE, VEERANAR TEMPLE,

## Others

Political:
Member of Legislative Assembly N.R. Rangarajan (IN Congress)- MLA of Pattukottai. Councillor - M. Sekar (AIADMK, Keelakurichi)
Vadiyakkadu is a part of the Thanjavur Lok Sabha constituency Most of the peoples are supporters of AIADMK, DMK and INC Congress.
# Vairotsana

Vairotsana (Tibetan: བཻ་རོ་ཙ་ན་, Wylie: ba gor bai ro tsa na) was a lotsawa or "translator" living during the reign of King Trisong Detsen, who ruled 755-97 CE. Vairotsana, one of the 25 main disciples of Padmasambhava, was recognized by the latter as a reincarnation of an Indian pandita. He was among the first seven monks ordained by Śāntarakṣita, and was sent to Dhahena in India to study with Śrī Siṅgha, who taught him in complete secrecy. Śrī Siṅgha in turn entrusted Vairotsana with the task of propagating the semde and longdé sections of Dzogchen in Tibet. He is one of the three main masters to bring the Dzogchen teachings to Tibet, the two others being Padmasambhava and Vimalamitra, and was also a significant lineage holder of trul khor.
Shechen Gyaltsab mentions in his Pond of White Lotus Flowers that before meeting Śrī Siṅgha, Vairotsana had met the wisdom forms of the two vidyadharas Garab Dorje and Mañjuśrīmitra in a miraculous pagoda at Dhahena. After he had presented a huge offering of gold, they conferred empowerment upon him and bestowed their blessings, with the prediction that he would receive the complete teachings from Shri Singha.
He is named after Vairocana, the central dhyani Buddha.

## Disciples

Vairotsana's chief disciples were Yudra Nyingpo, Sangtön Yeshe Lama, Pang Gen Sangye Gönpo, Jnana Kumara of Nyag (Wylie: nyag ye she gzhon nu), and Lady Yeshe Drönma (Wylie: jo mo ye shes sgron). An especially renowned disciple was the old Pang Gen Mipham Gönpo whose disciples attained the rainbow body for seven generations by means of the oral instructions of Longdé entitled 'Dorje Zampa' (Wylie: rdo rje zam pa) also known as the 'Vajra Bridge'. Tsele Natsok Rangdröl, Terdag Lingpa Gyurmey Dorje, and Jamgon Kongtrul are regarded as reincarnations of Vairotsana.

## Travels

Born in Pagor, Vairotsana was sent to India by Trisong Detsen to learn the Dharma with Indian panditas. Vairotsana also travelled widely in China, Khotan, Nepal, Zhangzhung, amongst other places. In China, Vairotsana received teachings from nineteen teachers. Amongst these were: Kusula Bhitigarbha, Dharmabodhi, Vajra Sukha Deva, Pandita Barma, Tsenda Ritropa, Mahabodhi, Shri Ani, Moheyan, Surya Ghirti and Satipa.

## Publications

* Eye of the Storm: Vairotsana's Five Original Transmissions (Snga 'gyur lnga)—translation and commentary by Keith Dowman; Vajra Publications, Nepal.
# Danala

Danala is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.

## Species

* Danala laxtaria Walker, 1860
* Danala lilacina (Wileman, 1915)
# Meragisa dasra

Meragisa dasra is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in south-eastern Peru.
# Five Tango Sensations

Five Tango Sensations is a suite of works (Asleep—Loving—Anxiety—Despertar—Fear) for bandoneón and string quartet written in 1989 by Argentine composer Ástor Piazzolla. It was premiered in New York that year and recorded immediately afterwards by the Kronos Quartet and the composer, who played the bandoneón. The record was one of a set of three internationally tinged albums released simultaneously, the Argentine music of this album being accompanied by the music of South-African composer Kevin Volans on Kevin Volans: Hunting:Gathering and the music of Polish composer Witold Lutosławski on Witold Lutosławski: String Quartet.

## The Kronos Quartet and Ástor Piazzolla

In 1987, Kronos's executive producer, Robert Hurwitz, had taken Piazzolla, who was on an extended stay in New York City, to see the quartet perform. Backstage, after Piazzolla paid his compliments to the quartet, violinist David Harrington asked if he could call him in a few days; when Harrington called, Piazzolla had already composed "Four, For Tango" for them. (The quartet still plays the piece from photocopies of Piazzolla's original score.) The quartet recorded the piece in November 1987 for their 1988 album Winter Was Hard. They continued their collaboration in live performance; as late as June 1990 Piazzolla and the quartet performed together at a festival in Germany.
The five compositions on this album, "a musical farewell to life," date from 1989, and were written after Piazzolla experienced a grave illness. They were premiered in New York at Alice Tully Hall on 25 November 1989, Piazzolla having flown to New York to play with the quartet for the premiere and the subsequent recordings, which were done in a three-hour session at the Power Station in Manhattan. Harrington remarked that this was the shortest recording session they had ever done, and the quartet noted a "centered sternness" in Piazzolla: according to Harrington, "he pulled the music out of Kronos."
The session with the Kronos Quartet proved to be his last studio recording: Piazzolla, who had revolutionized the traditional tango creating a new style, the nuevo tango, died on 4 July 1992.

## Track listing

All music is composed by Ástor Piazzolla

## Critical reception

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
Allan Kozinn, reviewing the compositions for The New York Times after their premiere in New York in 1989, called them "a set of charmingly melodic tangos in which the group supplied an accompaniment to the composer's urbane performances on the accordionlike bandoneon." Adam Greenberg remarks in his review on Allmusic that "Piazzolla plays his heart out on his trusty bandoneon, and the Kronos players accompany to perfection." Michael Barrett, in the San Antonio Express-News, calls it a "work of tragic beauty."

## Personnel
### Musicians

* David Harrington – violin
* John Sherba – violin
* Hank Dutt – viola
* Joan Jeanrenaud – cello
* Ástor Piazzolla – bandoneón

### Production

* Recorded and mixed at Power Station, New York City
** Judith Sherman, Rob Eaton, Dave O'Donnell, Dan Gellert – engineers
# Valerie Hall

Valerie Hall (1946-2016) was a Professor in Palaeoecology at Queen's University Belfast until her retirement in 2010, after which she remained a Professor Emerita. She gained a 2:2 in botany at Queen's University Belfast in 1968 and a PhD in Palaeoecology in 1989. She has produced a number of publications of which the best known may be Flora Hibernica, which she co-wrote along with J. Pilcher and published in 2001.
She was the Director of Research in the School of Archaeology-Palaeoecology at Queen's University Belfast.
Valerie was Vice President of the INQUA Commission for Tephrochronology and Volcanology and was the Honorary Company Secretary of the Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.

## Publications

She produced 30 peer-reviewed papers as listed in Scopus. The most cited is "Dates of Holocene Icelandic volcanic eruptions from tephra layers in Irish peats" Pilcher, J.R., Hall, V.A., McCormac, F.G. Holocene 5 (1), pp. 103–110, (1995), which has been cited 85 times by March 2010.
* Hall, V.A. and Bunting, L. (2000) Tephra-dated pollen studies of medieval landscapes in the north of Ireland. In: Gaelic Ireland c.1250-1650: land lordship and settlement. Eds P. Duffy, D. Edwards and E. Fitzpatrick. Four Courts Press Dublin, 207–222.
* Hall, V.A. (2000) A comparative study of the documentary and pollen analytical records of the vegetational history of the Irish landscape, 200-1650 AD. Peritia 14, 342 -371.
* Hall, V.A. (2001) Ancient record keepers. Wild Ireland 1 (2), 54–56.
* Hall, V.A., Holmes, J. and Wilson, P. (2001) Holocene tephrochronological studies in the Falkland Islands. In Tephras; chronology and archaeology, (eds) E. Juvigne and J.P. Raynal. Les dossiers de l'Archeo-logis No 1, 39–44.
* Hall V.A. and Mauquoy D. (2005) Tephra-dated climate and human-impact studies during the last 1500 years from a raised bog in central Ireland. The Holocene 15, 1086–1093.
* Hall, V.A. and Pilcher, J.R. (2002) Late-Quaternary Icelandic tephras in Ireland and Great Britain: detection, characterization and usefulness. The Holocene 12, 223–230.
* Pilcher, J.R. and Hall, V.A. (2001) Flora Hibernica: the wild flowers, plants and trees of Ireland. Collins Press, Cork.
# Val-de-Roulans

Val-de-Roulans (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.
# Vallancey

Vallancey is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
* Vallancey Brown (1912–1987), Australian cricketer
* Charles Vallancey (1731–1812), British military surveyor
* F. Hugh Vallancey (1879–1950), English schoolmaster
# Vallda Golf & Country Club

Vallda Golf & Country Club is a golf club located in Kungsbacka 30 km south of Gothenburg in Sweden. It hosted the Scandinavian Mixed in 2021, a joint event on the European Tour and Ladies European Tour.

## History

Plans to create a classic Scottish heathland golf course near Gothenburg were conceived in the mid-1990s and 86 hectares of meadowland surrounded by oak forest was acquired in the Vallda Valley, outside Kungsbacka. Golf course architect Martin Hawtree was commissioned to design the course drawing on inspiration from the legendary British golf courses of the 1920s, and the 18-hole course in open links-style layout was completed in July 2009.
Svensk Golf, official publication of the Swedish Golf Federation, in 2020 ranked the course #7 in Sweden using the Golf Digest methodology.
In 2021 the club hosted its first major event, the Scandinavian Mixed hosted by Henrik Stenson and Annika Sörenstam. Sanctioned jointly by the European Tour and Ladies European Tour, the tournament for the first time brought together 78 men and 78 women to compete in the same tournament, playing from different tees, for the same prize money. By dividing the results, Official World Golf Ranking points were offered for both tours, along with points toward the European Tour's and LET's respective season-long Order of Merit competitions.

## Tournaments hosted
### Professional tournaments

| Year | Tour | Tournament | Winner |
| 2021 | EUR · LET | Scandinavian Mixed | Jonathan Caldwell |
# Goxhill Hall

Goxhill Hall is a late 17th-century residence and a Grade II* Listed building in Goxhill, North Lincolnshire. A 14th to 15th-century Medieval hall joins onto the north-east corner of Goxhill Hall. This earlier structure was part of a larger complex and is a Grade I Listed building.

## History and design

The hall was built between 1690 and 1705 for Henry Hildyard and was renovated in the late 20th century. It is constructed in two storeys of red brick with blue brick dressing with a pantile roof and a 5-bay frontage.
# Forest Movement Europe

The Forest Movement Europe (FME) is a grouping of more than 45 NGOs from 12 European countries working on forest issues. The movement has been in existence, although under different names, for more than 15 years. Its purpose is to share information, to develop joint strategies and a wider European perspective on forest issues. The FME also supports NGOs and Indigenous Peoples Organisations in the South in their activities to protect forests.

## History

The origin of the movement goes back to 1989 when a group of NGOs from several different European countries joint efforts to support Japanese organisations in their activities to stop the destruction of the rainforests by Japanese companies. This group of NGOs met under the heading Ban Japan from the Rainforest.
By 1992 the group had expanded considerably in size and in the issues it dealt with. Its focus was no longer Japanese companies but tropical rainforest protection and support for forest peoples in general. At a meeting in Munich, Germany, the group renamed itself the European Rainforest Movement (ERM), the European arm of the World Rainforest Movement. It choose to be a loose movement with no formal membership and without a formal secretariat. Meetings were held twice a year, hosted by one of the participating groups and coordinated by Saskia Ozinga of FERN. It was mainly due to the activities of the groups that participated in the ERM that the tropical rainforest campaigns in Europe took off, imports of tropical timber into several European countries declined and the struggle of forest peoples, e.g. in Sarawak, Malaysia and the Amazon were headline stories.
Environmental organisations in the boreal forests who had been working in their own countries to protect these forests decided they needed outside support. The formation of the Taiga Rescue Network (TRN) in 1992 was a crucial moment. The coordinator of the TRN, Karin Lindahl, contacted Saskia Ozinga to join forces. From that moment onwards, groups working on the boreal forests joined the ERM which was by definition not only working on tropical forests. Therefore in 1994 the group decided to change its name to Forest Movement Europe (FME).
Currently the FME meets once a year. Meetings are hosted by participating organisations and are organised by FERN.
# William French (merchant)

William French was a tobacco merchant.

## Early life

French was born in 1732.

## Career as a merchant

As a tobacco merchant, French was involved in the Chesapeake trade, through multiple firms, including Spiers, Bowman & Co, in which French was a controlling partner. Alexander Spiers and John Bowman were his partners. The firm held stores along the James River.
His business was adversely affected by the disruption caused by the American War of Independence, and he was declared bankrupt in 1786.
He was one of the founder directors of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce.

## Politics

French was provost of Glasgow between 1778 - 1780. He was also a Magistrate.

## Property

He owned the estate of Baillieston.

## Death

He was buried in the Ramshorn Cemetery, Glasgow, in 1832.
# Euspondylus monsfumus

Euspondylus monsfumus is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. It is endemic to Venezuela.
# Miyazaki, Fukui

Miyazaki (宮崎村, Miyazaki-mura) was a village located in Nyū District, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.
As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 4,033 and a density of 121.99 persons per km$^2$. The total area was 33.06 km$^2$.
On February 1, 2005, Miyazaki, along with the towns of Asahi and Ota (all from Nyū District), was merged into the expanded town of Echizen to create the new town of Echizen, and no longer exists as an independent municipality.